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Rppointerl general of the Chalukya armies ;* and the influence which 

 he thereby obtained he turned against his sovereign, and expelled him 

 from his throne. Inscriptions in his name occur from Saka 1079, 

 which is styled the second of his reign ; but for several years he was 

 contented with the subordinate style and titles of a great noble, " Maha 

 Mandaleswar," &c. In Saka 1084, the seventh of his reign, he march* 

 ed into the southern part of the kingdom, whither the Chalukya prince 

 had fled, and where he maintained himself amid the forests and moun- 

 tains bordering on the Ghats. Here, at Anigiri, Vijala, for the first 

 time proclaimed himself eka chhatra, or supreme, and assumed all the 

 royal titles. f 



"We continue however to find grants by Trilokya Malla Teilapafrom 

 Saka 1072, the year of his accession, to Saka 1085, and these are not 

 confined to the S. W. portion of his kingdom only, but occur in the 

 Kizam's country, and even towards the Krishna. In Saka 1079, 

 he is mentioned as reigning at his hereditary capital of KalyanJ but 

 in the last inscription that was procured of his reign, in Saka 1085, he 

 is said to reign at Jyntapur, orBanawasi.§ 



His son, the last of the race, was Someswar IV., or Vira Soma, 

 who assumed the title of Tribhuvana Malla, which had previously been 

 borne by Vijala. He succeeded to the fallen fortunes of his house 

 in Saka 1104, and for a while upheld them. The religious feuds 

 that raged at Kalyan, consequent on the establishment of the Lin- 

 gayat creed, occupied Vijala and his sons too fully to admit of their 

 effectually crushing the last feeble attempts of the Chaluk princes to 

 maintain themselves. Accordingly we find Vira Soma recovering a 

 temporary degree of importance. In an inscription at Anigiri, dated 

 Saka 1106, the third of his reign, Anigiri being in the open country, 

 w^here Vijala first assumed the regal titles, we find the following 

 abstract : " In the Kuntal des, by their wisdom and strength of arm, 

 reigned the Chalukya Rayas ; afterwards, by conquest, the Rattas 

 became supreme ; the Chalukyas were then restored ; subsequently 

 the Kala Churyas became masters of the land ; after whom, by the 

 appointment of Brahma, Vira Chalukya Soma ascended the throne* 

 His servant, living by his lotos feet, Vira Bomana, the son of Ravana 



* Ins. atHarsur, No. lO of II., Kalabhurya, vol. ii. p. 46. Kalgi, No. 15, do. do. p. 52; 



+ Ins. No. 6. The royal style and titles invariably ran thus: " Sri-prithwi-wallabha, 

 Maharaj-adiraja, Raja-parameswara, Param-bhataraka," &c. In the Ins. of Saka 1083, he 

 is only styled Maha Mandaleswar. 



X Ins. at Kembhavi, No. 3 of X. p, 535. \ Ins. at Pattadkal, No. 9, p. 544, 



