3.5.5 Eastern Chalukyas and Chalukya-Cholas notes

1. 3.5.5.1Kubja Vishnuvardhana to Gunaga Vijayaditya: founding of Vengi and the Rashtrakuta wars

   Pulakesin II of Badami took coastal Andhra from the Vishnukundins and placed his brother Kubja Vishnuvardhana over Vengi; his line, the Eastern Chalukyas, ruled the Krishna–Godavari delta for about four and a half centuries and fought the Rashtrakutas for most of the 8th and 9th.

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2. 3.5.5.2Chalukya Bhima I to Danarnava: civil wars and the Jata Choda Bhima interlude

   From Chalukya Bhima I (892) to Danarnava (973), Vengi was a temple-building kingdom torn by succession wars that the Rashtrakutas fed; it ended with the Telugu Choda chief Jata Choda Bhima killing Danarnava and holding Vengi for about a quarter century.

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3. 3.5.5.3Vimaladitya, Rajaraja Narendra and the Chola alliance

   After 999 the Cholas restored the Eastern Chalukyas and bound them by two royal marriages; Rajaraja Narendra, son of a Chola princess, ruled from Rajamahendravaram and patronised Nannaya, who began the Telugu Mahabharata.

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4. 3.5.5.4Kulottunga I and the Chalukya-Chola union

   Rajendra Chalukya, son of Rajaraja Narendra and the Chola princess Ammangadevi, became Chola emperor as Kulottunga I in 1070, uniting the Vengi and Chola thrones; Vengi was then ruled through his sons as viceroys until the Kalyani Chalukyas took it around 1118.

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5. 3.5.5.5Eastern Chalukya administration, economy and religion

   The Eastern Chalukyas ran a hereditary monarchy over a rich rice-growing delta through districts and village grants, patronised Saivism above all while supporting Jainism, and left a series of early Telugu inscriptions and the Pancharama shrines.

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6. 3.5.5.6Feudatories of Vengi: Vemulavada Chalukyas, Velanati Chodas, Haihayas and the Palnadu war

   Around Vengi stood smaller ruling houses: the Vemulavada Chalukyas in Telangana (Rashtrakuta subordinates and patrons of Pampa), the Velanati Chodas who held the delta after the Chola viceroys left, and the Haihayas of Palnadu, whose family feud became the Palnadu war of about 1182.

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