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INSCRIPTIONS. 



Vijala or Bijjala of Kalyana. This Yijala, who belonged 

 to the family of the Kalacuryas, though he usurped the 

 throne of the Calukyas of Kalyana, is himself called Calukya 

 Narayana ; he is also known as Yenga Tribhuvana Malla. 3 

 Yijala' s power increased rapidly, until he came to an untimely 

 end by the machinations of the famous Basava, the founder 

 of the sect of the Lingamites, Yijala had raised this Basava 

 from an insignificant position to the post of prime minister 

 and commander-in-chief through the influence of the beauti- 

 ful Padmavati, the sister of Basava, to whose charms Yijala 

 had succumbed and whom he had married. Yajadevamalla, 

 Mollayya and Bommanna are mentioned in the Cannabasava- 

 purana as the actual murderers of Yijala. 



The son of Yijala, generally known as the Yuvaraja, was, 

 according to the Narapativijayam, the father of Hemmaliraja, 

 who in his turn became the father of Tatapinnaraja, who in 

 the Balabhagavatam, Yasucaritram, and Narasabhupaliyam 

 heads the list of the Narapati dynasty. 



The Narapatis are therefore, according to the Narapativi- 

 j ay am, the representatives of Yijala, and, like him, they are 

 repeatedly called Calukyas. The Narapatis themselves rose 

 to great power, especially in the territories of the Nizam, the 

 Northern Circars and Ceded Districts. 



3 In the Narapativijayam Yijala is called "the sovereign of the best 

 town Kalyana, belonging to the Atreya Gotra, who purifies his family by the 

 observance of Keatriya rites, a Calukya Narayana, a Calukya Cakravarti, 

 who is like a boar to the kings of the earth, Yehgatribhuvana Malla," &c. 



The Basava Purana also calls Yijala a Calukya. According to Mr. L. 

 Eice, " Mysore Inscriptions," p. 253, the Devanhalli inscription reads : 

 " From him the eighth in descent was Nanda, from him the ninth was 

 Chalihya, from him the seventh Sripati. . . Then came Bhaiva, an equal 

 of kings, from whom sprung Bijjalendra. The tenth in succession from 

 him was Vira Hammdli Rdya." The words eighth and tenth are wrong. 

 Mr. Eice himself says that the inscription is very indistinot. 



