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The sons of Teila and of his wife Jakabya were Satya Sri and Dasa 

 V^rma. of whom the former succeeded him : but dying without issue, 

 was followed successively by his nephews, the sons of Dasa Yarma 

 and Bhagavati Deri, named Yikramaditya and Jaya Sinha. The latter 

 assumed the title of JagaJeka Malla, or " sole lord of the world," and 

 is said to have overcome the Choi Raja in battle.* 



His son, Someswara Deva I., seems to have had two titles, Trilokya 

 Jlalla, " lord of the three worlds/** and Ahawa Malla, •• lord of waF/* 

 The same authority already quoted, describes him as " defeating Choi, 

 burning Kanchi. besieging Ujjayana,"-*- and another as " cutting the 

 Becks of the lords of Malava, of Chola, ani of Kanyakubja, and over- 

 coming his most powerful enemies who had attained superiority ever 

 all.'*'i A third inscription makes the folio «ing vague enumeration of 

 titles : the elephant in the plantain-garden of his enemies, the Xa- 

 rendra of Chola ; the fire drying up the Sea of Malava, the lightning 

 striking the mountain-earth lords of Anga, Wanga. Khasa-Wanga, 

 Pandya, Saurashtra, Kerala, Nepala, Turushka, Eira, Magaaha." It 

 then goes on with more precision to aunounce tiie following historical 

 feet, — that being on his return from the South, where he had gained a 

 great victory over Choi, whilst halting at the town of Puliyappayana, 

 in the Siddhawadi-Xadu, he bestowed the lands and villages of Sivacur 

 on his chief general and minister, in Saka 9S1.§ 



The cause of this expedition is explained in a curious inscription 

 of the time of his son, named also Someswara, or Bbuneka Malla.jj 

 The Chola Eaja, it appears, had invaded Kuntala Desa, and ravaged 

 the southern provinces, taking and buiBing Puiikara Xagara, now 

 litkmeswar, famous for its Jain temples, which were all desiroyed. 

 Afier detailing the praises of the local chief who repaired them, and 

 the new grants made to them, it proceeds thus :— " The Dher, or 



* Ins. at Xagavi. Xos. 27 and 35 of V., pp. 93 and lOT. Icid. 

 t Api>endix Xo. I. 



I Ins. at Sudi, Xo. "24 of V., p. s6. Trie ministef -was named Naga Deveiya; his iiiies 

 are " Mani vegade," or honourable lord, ••" Danda nayaka," or general of the army, lerd 

 c f the great Samantas, chief of the Amatya Fada^ or great oMcerslike Taias to Choi, the 

 hamhlei of Bhoj, Bhujanga, Ahe d\rip3, Gurjaxa, so. Having reeelreil the district of 

 SiTanur now SavanuT, or Shaunoor'',, in -Hrhica §ndi is situated, by a copper giaat, he 

 bnUds a temple to Xagariawar, and endows it with part of his ret'^tlyracqrared posses- 

 sions, reconiing the grant on a stone, the one now extant. The situatioa of Paiiyappa- 

 yana has not been ascertained. It is prohabiy south of the Tonga Wzsdxsi. 



J. Ins. at Anigiri, Xo. 5 of "VI. . p. 153. 



