Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s11.1

c8.s11.1

The Western Chālukyas, after an eclipse of 200 years by the Rāshṭrakūṭas or Raṭṭas, regained their ascendancy, as above stated, in 973. Of Taila, who restored their power, Sk 125 says: "The earth and the crown having fallen into the hands of the Raṭṭas, he drove the kings of the Raṭṭa kingdom before him, put them down and overwhelmed them, this millstone (*gharaṭṭa*) to the Raṭṭas, and took possession of the crown of the Chālukya kingdom.” But Cd 25 of 971, if it can be relied on, represents Taila’s father Vikramāditya as already an independent ruler. The inscriptions of the revived Western Chālukyas are mostly confined to the Shimoga District, where they continued to hold the Banavase and Kadambalige provinces. A complete account of the whole line, from its origin down to Vikramāditya Tribhuvanamalla in 1123, is given in Dg 1. But the following is the table of the later Western Chālukyas:—