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tya's reign, and ended in establishing the ascendancy of the 

 Cho-las, his grandson, S. Venkatapati Naidu, was dispossessed, bnt 

 his son S. Bhima Nayadu recovered his patrimony in S. S. 898 and 

 built the town of Ratnapuram, now called Kempala palem where 

 he founded a temple to Varaha-swami in honor of the Chalukya 

 family.* 



A successful expedition into the Carnatic by^J Kirtti Varma, the 

 Chera king of Malabar about the year S. S. 930, in which/the 

 Salva chief sided with the invader, enabled his son Narasinha, a 

 man of ability and enterprize, to assume independence, which he 

 maintained successfully for 35 years to S. S. 979 (A. D. 1057). 

 His possessions extended along the base of the mountains, over 

 the breadth of the Carnatic Balaghat from the neighbourhood of 

 Vellore to the sea, including the three sacred places of Ghati- 

 kachalam (Shdlangad), 'Sesachalam (Tripati) and Kshani-kacha- 

 lam (Tiruttani). He surveyed and assessed the whole of the lands 

 within this space, reformed the weights and measures according to 

 the Salva standard, so called after his own family name and caused 

 them all to be stamped with the figure of the boar. Although his 

 son S. Bhujanga Nayadu was reduced to subjection by the West- 

 ern Chalukya king, Some'swara Deva and was carried away a pri- 

 soner to Kalyan where he died, these institutions were preserved 

 and have remained up to the present time. 



Bhujanga Nayadu' s grandson recovered his paternal estate in 

 S. S. 999 (A. D. 1077). They were again curtailed to 24 villages 

 by Raja Raja Deva Chola II. in S. S. 1152 (A. D. 1230). But 

 during the next four generations, the decaying power of the Cholas 

 enabled the Salva family to regain its independence, which was 

 strengthened by the marriage in S. S. 1236, of S. Narasa Nayadu 

 with the daughter of Prolaya Reddi the founder of the Vema 

 Reddi dynasty of Kondavid in Guntoor. 



The family now fell under the rule of the rising empire of Bija- 

 nagar, to which the Salvas continued subject for about 150 or 200 



* The remains of this temple still exist and among the ruins, the figure of 

 Yaraha swami stands exposed to the open air. 



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