The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c33.60

c33.60

After the death of Vikramānka, the Chalukya power declined; and in the course of the years A. D. 1156–62, during the reign of Taila III, the commander-in-chief, Bijjala or Vijjana, Kalachurya, revolted and obtained possession of the greater portion of the kingdom, which was held by him and his sons until A. D. 1183, when the Chalukya prince, Somesvara IV, succeeded in recovering his ancestral dominions from the successors of Bijjala. But he was not strong enough to resist the attacks of encroaching neighbours; and in the course of a few years the greater part of his kingdom had been absorbed by the Yādavas of Devagiri on the west, and the Hoysalas of Dōrasamudra on the south. The end of the Chalukya dynasty of Kalyāna may be dated in A. D. 1190, after which time the Rājas of the line ranked merely as petty chiefs.