The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v2.c13.s1.12

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Late inscriptions say that a general Kālakampa of the Paṭṭavardhana family slew a bitter personal enemy, Daddura by name, on the field of battle and seized his insignia under the orders of Viṣṇuvardhana;¹ we hear of Kālakampa’s successors under later monarchs, but do not know who Daddura was. Ayyaṇa-mahādevī appears to have been the queen of Kubja Viṣṇuvardhana and was named as his executrix in one of the king’s grants, as we learn from an inscription of one of his descendants, Viṣṇuvardhana III, which renewed the original grant of a village to a Jaina temple, Naḍumbibasadi, originally built by the queen at Bezwada. This document is also interesting as the earliest known mention of Jainism in the Telugu country.²