The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.104

v2.c29.s2.104

Yuvarāja II was succeeded by his son Kokalla II. No record of this prince has so far been discovered and in the inscriptions of his successors he is generally praised in very vague terms. Thus the Jubbulpore and Khaira plates of Yaśaḥ-Karṇa call him ‘a lion-like prince, the progress of whose four-fold (*caturaṅga*) armies was checked (only) by their encountering the masses of waves of the four oceans.’² The only interesting thing recorded about him in these inscriptions is that he was placed on the throne by the chief ministers (*amātyamukhyāḥ*) of Yuvarāja II.³ This may indicate that he was not the heir-apparent of his father, or when his father died Kokalla was still a minor. The silence of the *praśastikāras* clearly shows that his reign did not form a brilliant chapter in the history of the Kalacuris. It is therefore likely that the *Kalacuri-candra* who ‘worshipped’ the great Candella king Vidyādhara ‘full of fear like a pupil’ is to be identified with this prince.⁴ Kokalladeva, like his predecessors, may have had also something to do with the Mattamayūra Śaiva ascetics. His name apparently occurs in the lower part (line 40) of a much damaged stone inscription of these ascetics, discovered at Gurgi (12 miles E. of Rewa).⁵