The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c9.s2.t9: Minor lines
The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c9.s2.t9
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With the rise of the Rāshṭrakūṭas, the Chālukyas quit the stage for well over two centuries, and then they appear once again on the ruins of the Rāshṭrakūṭa empire. In the interval we find a number of subordinate chieftains in different parts of the Deccan bearing the Chālukya name; but with two important exceptions to be mentioned presently, there is nothing to attest their connexion with the main line of the Chālukyas of Bādāmi or with one another. About A.D. 800 we find a certain Kattiyāra ruling with some show of power in the Dharwar region, and an inscription of his from Didgur mentions a certain Dosi who was ruling Banavāsi 12,000 as a subordinate of his; that Kattiyāra was a Chālukya is clear from the boar sculptured on the stone which bears his inscription, and from a reference to him in the Managoli inscription of A.D. 1161. He was one of several princes who co-operated with the Rāshṭrakūṭa Kambha against his brother Govinda III.¹ Again in A.D. 944-5 a mahāsāmanta Katyera of the Chālukya family was ruling over Kogali 500 and Masiyavāḍi 140 under the Rāshṭrakūṭa Kṛishṇa III.² Under the same Rāṣṭrakūṭa ruler we find another Chāḷukya chieftain, Rājāditya by name, ruling Kadambalige 1000 to the east of the Tungabhadrā in the Mysore country.¹ Yet another Chāḷukya prince, Parahitarāja, is mentioned in an inscription from Koṭūr in the Belgaum district, recording the self-immolation of a Śaiva ascetic, by name Śambhu.² The Kaḍaba plates of Govinda III, of doubtful authenticity, make mention of a Chāḷukya Vimalāditya as ruling Kuṇigal-deśa about A.D. 813 and of the names of his father and grandfather, Yaśovarman and Balavarman respectively.³ Short stone inscriptions of the late ninth or early tenth century from Varuṇa in Mysore mention a Chāḷukya Narasimha and his wife Gāvilabbarasi and a mahāsāmanta Goggi or Gugga with the boar crest.⁴ Diligent search may yet reveal the existence of other minor chieftains bearing the name of the Chāḷukyas.
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¹ EI, vi, 253.
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² SII, ix (i), no. 64 (75 of 1904).
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¹ MAR, 1935, no. 40.
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² IA, xx, 69.
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³ SII, ix (i), no. 64 (75 of 1904).
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⁴ EC, iii, Mys, 35-7, 41-5.
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But certainly more important than the minor chieftains were the Chāḷukyas of Mudugoṇḍa (Warangal District) and of Vēmulavāḍa (Karimnagar District), both holding sway in adjacent tracts in the eastern half of the modern Hyderabad province, and playing occasionally an important role in the wars between the Rāṣṭrakūṭas and the Eastern Chāḷukyas, owing allegiance to the one or the other according to changes in the fortunes of the contest. The history of the Vēmulavāḍa line is now better known than before, and given in the form of an Appendix at the end of Part V, in which the history of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas is studied.