The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.144

v3.c29.144

In all these transactions between the Cholas and the Chālukyas, both diplomatic and warlike, the Governors of Gangavādi and Nolambavādi have had their share. While inscriptions of Vīra Rājēndra claim for him the credit of having granted to Vikramāditya, the Chālukya prince, the *Yauvarājya* or the position of heir-apparent to the Chālukya kingdom, Hoysala inscriptions of 1100 claim for Ereyanga the son of Vinayāditya the Hoysala governor of Gangavādi, that he caused Tribhuvanamalla's (Vikramāditya's) elder brother to sheathe his sword. His father-in-law Irukkapāla similarly lays claim to having defeated Bhuvanaikamalla (the Chālukya king Sōmēsvara), and gave the kingdom to Vikramāditya whose right-hand Ereyanga, the Hoysala prince, is described to have been. It becomes thus clear that, notwithstanding the statements in Bilhana's Vikramānka-dēvacharitam, Vikramāditya planned and carried out the usurpation, and, in this enterprise, he had the assistance of the southern chiefs. Ereyanga seems to have taken part in the distant northern expeditions of the Chālukyas, as he claims a victory at Dhār in Malva, then under the successors of the great Bhoja. Ereyanga obviously died before his father and left three sons by his wife Ēchaladēvi, the daughter of the Nolamba chief referred to already.