1838.] 



Hindu Inscriptions, 



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Danda Nayak, like as Parasuram, son of Jamadagni, destroyed the 

 thousand-ai-med, so he, having vowed that he would uproot the 

 destroyers of his master, and make the Chalukyas again lords of the 

 earth, became the destroying fire of the Kalabhurya Kula." Then, 

 extolling his bravery, he is described as " driving aside Kerala and 

 Gurjara, and making Ballam bow before him, as a wife bows before 

 her husband."* 



The limited range, however, within which the inscriptions of this 

 prince occur, none of them being far north of the Tungabhadra, mark 

 the partial nature of his success. One of them is remarkable as hav- 

 ing been made on the same stone, and under a grant of Vijala's. In a 

 contest between the Lingayats and Jains, at Ablur, about the year 

 1089, in which the former had obtained a decided advantage, Vijala 

 (himself a Jain) bestowed certain rewards on the successful Lingayat 

 devotee, named Ekanta Ramiah. The second inscription then pro- 

 ceeds to relate, that at the time when " the excess of the brilliant light 

 of Tribhuvana Malla Vir Someswar Chalukya had put to flight the 

 darkness of Tribhuvana Malla Vijala of the Kalabhurya race, Romana 

 Danda Nayak having re-established the whole Chalukya-raj, and be- 

 ing at Selihali Kop with the king, they heard that Vijala had sent for 

 Ekanta Ramiah, and given certain grants to Someswar Deva, of Ablurj 

 wherefore they also sent for him and conferred other gifts upon him,'* 

 &c. It is without date.f 



Such are the last records of this powerful family. What ultimate- 

 ly became of Vir Soma does not appear. He seems to have maintain- 

 ed himself for a longer period than his opponent, the last of whose 

 grants is dated Saka 1104, while Vir Soma's extend to Saka 1111. 



About this time, taking advantage of the distracted state of the 

 country, the Bellalas of Bwara Samudra, or Halabidu, advanced 

 from the south, while the Yadavas of Devagiri extended their en- 

 croachments in the north, till meeting near the Krishna, a struggle 

 ensued between them, in which the minor actors entirely disappear 

 from the scene ; and which, after various success, terminated in the 

 Yadavas obtaining undisputed possession of the ancient limits of the 

 Chalukya kingdom. 



Vir Someswar IV. was the eleventh prince from Teilapa I. ; their 

 reigns extend over a period of 216 years, affording an average of some- 

 what more than nineteen years for each reign,— a duration equally 

 consonant with analogy and probability. 



* Ins. No. 4 of XI., p. 559. Ballam was founder of the Yadava dynasty of Devsgiris 

 t Ins. at Ablur, No. 17 of Vijala, vol. ii. p. 33* 



