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Podana is easily identified with Bodhan in the Nizamabad District of Hyderabad. This is a place with ancient associations, and an inscription of A.D. 1056 mentions the construction of a temple of Viṣṇu in that town by the Rāṣṭrakūṭa Indra III. Its location, taken along with the provenance of the three inscriptions of the Vēmulavāḍa Chālukyas, leaves little room for doubt that the centre of activity of the successors of Yuddhamalla I, if not of Yuddhamalla himself, must be located in the eastern half of Hyderabad known as Telingana; and Podana may be taken to mark a stage in this progress towards the east. Certain other facts tend to confirm this view. The Kollipara plates record a grant to a Śaiva ascetic of Elēśvara to the north of the celebrated mountain Śrīśaila in the Kurnool District. The temple of Āditya mentioned in the Vēmulavāḍa inscription, and the land granted to it, both lay in Vēmulavāḍa itself; and in the Parbhaṇī plates this city is expressly described as the *rājadhānī* (capital) of Arikesarī III. It is almost certain that Vēmula-