The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c29.152

v3.c29.152

Vikramāditya’s long reign of fifty-two years was, as has already been remarked, one of peace, except for one invasion of the Chola territory and the occasional checks that had to be administered to the rising ambitions of the Hoysala feudatory in the last years of his reign. Vikramāditya had occasionally to carry on wars across the Narbada; but these wars were not of frequent occurrence. At his death his kingdom extended from Broach to Erode and from Mangalore to the Sītābaldī hills in the Central Provinces. This vast territory was parcelled out into a number of viceroyalties; the Seunas or Yādavas with a capital at Sinnar near Nāsik and later at Deogiri; the Silāharas of the northern and southern Konkan and of Kolhāpur, and the Kadambas of Goa and Hangal. East of these were the territories of the Sindas at Elberga, of the Guttas of Guttal in Dhārwār, and of the Rattas of Saundatti in Belgaum. Then came the royal domain, namely, all the Nizām's dominions except the most easterly part, the Khammamet division, and lastly the viceroyalty in the Central Provinces with its capital at Sītābaldī¹. This leaves out Banavāsi, Nolambavādi and Gangavādi under the Hoysalas, although up to the last years of Vishnuvardhana almost, other viceroys continued to be appointed for the two former. This great kingdom passed in 1128 to his son Sōmēsvara III, who was succeeded in 1138 by his son Pērma Jagadēkamalla who ruled till 1150. In this reign comes to notice a young man of promise whose father was governor of Tardavādi 1000, a district round Bījāpur, an alternative capital of the Chālukyas. This was Bijjala. He became governor of the same province as his father, and later was appointed viceroy of Nolambavādi and Banavāsi, governing these provinces by deputies while he himself remained at the capital like the Sayyid brothers under the Mughul emperor Farrukhsiyar. This change in the position of Bijjala is already noticeable under Jagadēkamalla; but when the latter was succeeded by his brother Taila III, his power grew perceptibly till in 1156 he became virtually ruler, though Taila reigned nominally till 1163.