The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.14.3

v2.c29.s2.14.3

He formed matrimonial alliances with the Rāṣṭrakūṭas and the Candellas, and kept up friendly relations with the Gurjara-Pratīhāras of Kanauj. After consolidating his position at home he seems to have raided a large area of northern and southern India. In the Amoda plates of the Haihaya Pṛthvīdeva of Tummāṇa (K. S. 831=1079 A.D.) Kokkalla is said to have plundered ‘the treasuries of the Karṇāṭa, Vāṅga, Gurjara, Koṅkaṇa, and Śākambharī kings and also of those born of the Turuṣka and Raghu families.’¹ Much of this is no doubt mere *praśasti*. As the word *Turuṣka* in the records of this period generally means the Turks represented by the ruling families of Ghazni and Ghūr, and as the earliest recorded date for a Turkish invasion of India cannot be placed before the middle of the 10th century, when Alp-tigīn established himself at Ghazni,² the chances of Kokkalla meeting a Turuṣka opponent were extremely remote. Without, therefore, accepting literally all that the poet claims for him, we can believe that he really raided a wide area around his dominions. There is, however, no means to determine the exact limits of his kingdom. In some records of the Tummāṇa Haihayas his dominions seem to be designated as *Tritaśaurya*.³ This place has not yet been identified. But as one of his sons is said to have ascended the ancestral throne at Tripurī (6 miles from Jubbulpore, in the Central Provinces), and another appears to have fixed his residence at Tummāṇa (mod.