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The expedition probably set out from some base on the banks of the Gōdāvarī and having entered Kaliṅga, conquered the Māḍiyas and the Twelve Manniyas, that is, the country extending as far as the frontiers of the present Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. Tekkali was captured, and a great battle was fought at Bokkera in the Aska tāluk of the Ganjam district, in which a famous warrior who bore the title of Gōdhumaraāti was killed with all his followers.³ Another engagement took place near Udayagiri in the Peda-kimiḍi Agency; Paḍiyarāya, the ruler of the place, was put to flight, and the fort was taken.⁴ Gōdhumaraāti and Paḍiyarāya have not yet been identified. It is not unlikely that they were subordinates of the Eastern Gaṅga king, Rājarāja III, who was ruling over Kaliṅga at this time. The Kākatīya army next marched into Bastar, reduced Chakrakōṭa, and crossing the Gōdāvarī took possession of Manthena on the south bank of the river;⁵ and having thus completed the conquest of the hill tracts, the army finally returned in triumph to Dākshārāmam, where Rājanāyaka, the commander of the Rēcherla forces, endowed, as a thank-offering, a perpetual lamp in the temple of the god Bhīmēśvara, on Sunday, Vaiśākha, śu 11, Ś. 1134 (29 April, A.D. 1212).⁶