52 



Account of Mamallaipur. 



[No. 30 



Tiruvijichilur, in the inscription on the rock. 



In a copy of a Grant at Pittapoor, in my possession, Vija* 

 yadttya, the founder of the Chalukya dynasty of Kalinga, 

 about the middle of the 6th Century,* is described as " de- 

 " stroying the southern King Trilochana Pallava, and, thro 5 the 

 " decree of Fate, losing his life in that country." From the 

 title Pallava it may be inferred that this chief was of the same 

 race, and probably the same family as Kama Raja, surnamed 

 Jaya Rana Sthamba, [the pillar of successful war], and Ati 

 Rana Chanda Pallava. 



Another inscription, engraved on a set of copper plates, 

 (in the possession of Mahendra Shanta, a Jain Guru at Hy- 

 derabad,) and of an sera 60 or 70 years later contains the fol- 

 lowing passage. 



* " Having conquered in battle, the hostile kings in the different quarters 

 " &c. he acquired the names of Parameswara and Vicramaditya.^ More- 

 " over Pallava Mardu was, overcome by this Lord Sri Vallabha, who anni- 

 " hilated the renown of Narasimha, surpassed the valor of Mahendra, and 

 " excelled Iswara in affability. He has j ustly assumed the title of Sri Valla- 

 " bha, being in the unprecedented possession of Kdiichi, as it were the 

 " loosened zone (kanchi) of the Nymph of the south. He is also rightly en- 

 " titled to' the name of Rajamalla, having secured his acquisition by hi3 

 " large and strong arms, and conquered the chief ( Palaka J of the Maha* 

 ** malla race." 



Prom these facts it may be inferred, that the rulers of Ma- 

 malleipuram were in a state of independence in the 6th and 

 beginning of the 7th Centuries. We know from other 

 sources that the Chola Kings reduced Tondamandalum about 

 the 7th Century.^ At that time it was parcelled out among 



* About S. S. 475 or A. D. 553. 



+ This refers to one of the early Chalukya Kings of Callian, who is described in the 

 beginning of the Copper plates as son of Satya Sriya, grandson of Kirti Varma, and 

 great grandson of Pulikesi. liisa^rawas about S. Saca 548 corresponding with A. 

 620. The Kalinga and Kallian dynasties were collateral branches of the same race. 



% Ellis in Trans. Mad. Lit. Soc. p. 19. 



