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MISCELLANEOUS
The Loṅkuḷas, subordinates of the Vaiduṁbas.
70. Two inscriptions secured at Tsadum in the Punganur taluk, Chittoor
district (Nos. 366 and 367), belong to the time of Vaidumba Vīra-Mahārāja. One
of them (No. 366) states that a certain
Loṅkuḷāthitya, i.e., Loṅkuḷāditya ‘sun
to the Loṅkuḷa family’, was administering Sadambu and that Peṅgāla
Rāchamalla died fighting when Raṇamorkka-Śiṅga, Vāṇaraju, etc. raided
the place. The other record (No. 367) is seriously damaged, but preserves
some reference to the same Loṅkuḷa chief during the time of Vaidumba Vīra-[Mahārāja]. This also seems to refer to the same incident, in which another
hero lost is life. From these inscriptions it is clear that the Loṅkuḷas held a subordinate position under the Vaidumbas. In 1905, three inscriptions (Nos. 292-294) were copied at Basinikoṇḍa near Madanapalle which refer to the Loṅkuḷas in
connection with a fight at Mudumaḍuvu. One of them (No. 293) states that
Śrī-Gaṅga, a Loṅkuḷas chief, lost his life in the same combat. The Veligallu
inscription of Vaidumba-Mahārāja Gaṇḍatrinētra belonging to the 9th century
A.D. (No. 314 of 1922) mentions Mudumaḍuvu as a scene of battle between the
Vaidumbs and the Noḷambas, etc. From a study of the contemporary record
it seems to have been one of the engagements connected with the famous battle
of Soremaṭi. Hence the fight at Mudumaḍuvu mentioned in the three Basinikoṇḍa inscriptions (Nos. 292 to 294 of 1905) must be placed during the time of
Gaṇḍatrinētra Vaidumba-Mahārāja who was also known by the epithet Vaidumba Vīra-Mahārāja. The Vaidumba Vīra-Mahārāja of the two records under
study would therefore be identical with the same Gaṇḍatrinētra, and the skirmish
in which the heroes lost their lives may possibly be one of the series culminating
in the battle of Soremaṭi.
Rashṭrakūṭa Kannaradeva.
71. A Tamil record of the Rāshtrakūṭa king Kṛishṇa III comes from Pādūr in
the Tirukkoyilur taluk of the South Arcot distrcit (No. 281). It is dated in the
26th year of his reign and contains astronomical
details which equate to A.D. 964, October 26, thus giving A.D. 938-39 as the king’s initial date. The king is given the
titles Achalakulōttaman, Kāñchikan, Ellara-maruḷan and Anaiviṭaṅkan. The title Achalakulōttaman was probably assumed by him in commemoration of his having
overrun the country of the Malaiyamān chiefs of Tirukkōyilūr. Kāñchikan evidently refers to his having captured Kāñchī, which is further perpetuated ir
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