inscriptions in the hassan district

INTRODUCTION. VII
Kong divas.
The Kongalvas ruled a kingdom situated principally in the Arkalgud taluq,
between the Kaveri and Hemavati rivers 1) . Their inscriptions date from
about 1020 to 1100. They were, we may imagine, a branch of the Alva or
Aluva kings, the main line of which ruled over Aluva-kheda or South Kanara
from an early period. South from the Kongalvas were the Changalvas (sec
Vol. IV), and we have also mention of Dattalvas (Vol. VI) and in the present
volume of Nadalvas.
The best account of the Kongalvas is contained id their titles as given in
Ag. 99, though these may only apply to that particular king. They are,—
entitled to the five big drums, maha-mandalesvara, chief lord of the city of
Oreyur (the early Chola capital near Trichinopoly), sun upon the eastern
mountain the Chola-kula with twisted top-knot, crest-jewel of the Suryya-vamsa
(or Solar race). They thus claim to be in fact C'hdlas, but we know that the
Chojas imposed their names upon the provinces they conquered, while the
vassal kings whom they left in the government of them took Chola names, as for
example the Changalvas. But here the Kongalvas go farther and claim actual
descent from them. The names of the kings in our inscriptions here are,—
Badiva Kongalva . . . . . . . . .
Riijendra-Chola Prithuvi-mabaraja . . . . . 1022
Rajendra-Chola Kongalva . . . . . . . 102G
Rajendra Prithuvi-Kongajva-Deva Adataraditya . . 106G-1100
Tribhuvanamalla-Chola Kongalva-Deva Adataraditya . . 1100
Of the first we have no information except the name. In Mj. 43 and Ag. 76
we have encounters between the Kongfdvas and the Hoysalas. In the former
the Kongalva king attacked Nnpa-Kama-Poysala (the father of Vmayaditya)
in 1022, whose life was apparently saved by his general Jogayya. In the
latter the enemy is styled the base {munda) Poysaja, and Kongalva claims
to have gained a victory over him at Manni. This was in 1026. From Ag. 99
and his other inscriptions it is evident that Adataraditya was a Jam. Praise
is given in this to Prabhachandra-siddhanta-deva, who had the title ubJutyasutdhduta-ratndkara;
and the king made a chaityalaya for Gandavimuktasiddhanta-deva
in 1079. The inscription was composed by the minister for peace
and war, Nakularyya, who boasts of being able to write in four languages2) .
NADALVAS.
Of this family there is only one somewhat obscure inscription (HN. 17),
of the date 1141, determined by the mention of the coronation festival of
1) In Ha 92 (Vol. IV) the Ganga prince Ej;eyappa, it is said, was governor of the Kongal-nAd
Eight Thousand, which would be in about 920. This was probably the same province in «n earlier
and perhaps more extended form
" Could this be the celebrated Lakula, founder of the P&iupata sect?