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he is also said to have cut off the heads of seventy-five kings, to have beheaded Eṟuva Mallidēva in battle, and assisted by twelve kṣōṇi-maṇḍalikas, to have put to flight Kēśava together with Sōmidēva and Allugaṅga; he killed Mallikārjuna, the enemy of gods and brāhmans; he gave his daughter in marriage to Rājaṇṇa, the son of king Bollaya, and conferred on him, probably as a marriage portion, the territory in the neighbourhood of Nandanapura; he also defeated all the Āndhra kings and thereby acquired fame, and he re-established Manuma-Gaṇḍagōpāla who had been deprived of his kingship by his own followers at Vikramasiṃhapura (Nellore); and finally he churned the ocean of his enemies from which he obtained troops of horses and elephants, wealth, and immortal renown as well as the Pāṇḍya-kalpa-drumas or wish-yielding trees, that is to say the (five) Pāṇḍyas. The long praśasti in Sanskrit prose forming the second part of the record enumerates several birudas or titles of Ambadēva, some of which are important because they refer to real events which actually took place during the course of his career.