The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v2.c13.s2.t6.1.2

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(2) In some of the Eastern Ganga inscriptions of the time of Anantavarman Chōḍa Gaṅgadeva, it is said that Rājarāja-Dēvendravarman ‘first became the husband of the Goddess of Victory in a battle with the Dramilas and then wedded Rājasundarī, the daughter of the Chōḷa king, and when Vijayāditya, beginning to grow old, left (the country of) Vengi, as if he were a sun leaving the sky, and was about to sink in the great ocean of the Chōḷas, he, Rājarāja, the refuge of the distressed, caused him to enjoy prosperity for a long time in the Western horizon.¹ The name of the Chōḷa king whose daughter, Rājasundarī, Rājarāja thus married was, according to another record, Rājendra Chōḷa.² (3) Some of the copper-plate charters of Kulōttunga I, a name which Rājendra assumed after he ascended the Chōḷa throne, state that he first became king of Vengi after his father had ruled for a period of forty-one years, and that being desirous of the Chōḷa kingdom, he bestowed his ancestral kingdom on his paternal uncle Vijayāditya and departed to the south.³ It may be deduced from a comparison of these records that after Virarājendra had bestowed Vengi on Vijayāditya, his nephew Rājendra made an attempt to capture the country for himself, and that Vijayāditya thereupon fled from Vengi and took refuge in the Eastern Ganga court, where he appears to have remained during Rājendra’s rule.