History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c9.15

c9.15

Vyāgrarāja the "Tiger-king" was reigning.¹ Then he reached the coast of Orissa. Maṇṭarāja, king of Koṛala, Mahēndra of Piṣṭāpura, Svāmidatta of Koṭṭura, a citadel on the top of a hill and Damana of Ēraṇḍapalle tried to stop him but were captured. Samudragupta now prepared to make new conquests when he was opposed by a confederacy of all the kings that reigned near the mouth of the rivers Godavari and the Krishna, the most powerful of them being Viṣṇugopa the Pallava king of Kāñchi. The other kings were Nilarāja of Avamukta, Hastivarman of Vengi, Ugrasēna of Pālakka, Kubēra who reigned in Dēvarāṣṭra and Dhananjaya whose capital was at Kusthalapura. Samudragupta being repulsed by the kings of the Eastern Deccan abandoned the conquests he had made in the coast of Orissa and returned home.'