A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c14.63

c14.63

So also the Kākatiyas, who had received the district of Sabbi 1000 from Vikramāditya VI, and were making other additions to their original fief of Anumakonda; and the Yādavas of Devagiri who had been generally loyal to the Chālukyas from the days of Taila II. Taila III was a feeble and incompetent ruler, and the Kalacuri chieftain Bijjala of Tardavādi won his confidence and arrogated to himself more and more power in quick stages. By 1157 Bijjala assumed imperial titles and a new era may be said to have started; but almost to the end of his reign Taila continued to retain his nominal suzerainty which even powerful monarchs like Hoysala Narasimha I acknowledged, though fitfully. Taila waged war against the Kākatiya Prola II and attacked the city of Anumakonda, but Prola captured him and only released him out of loyalty and mercy. The hostilities, however, outlasted the reign of Prola, and Taila is said to have died of ‘dysentery caused by his fear of Rudra’, the son of Prola (1163).