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Iriva-Nolamba (Dilipa)

Nolamba-Pallava king, younger son of Ayyapa and grandson of Mahendra I, who succeeded his brother Anniga after the Rashtrakuta Krishna III defeated Anniga in 940. B. Lewis Rice gives him dates from 943 to 966. The genealogy on the Hemavati pillar ends with him, in a record of Saka 864 (942–43), and a record of his reign stands below the tank at Hindupur. The Vaidumbas served him, and a Bana chief ruled a district under him in 961. His grandson Polalchora set up a pillar at Kambaduru in 965.

Iriva-Nolamba, also called Dilipa, was a king of the Nolamba-Pallavas in the middle of the 10th century.12 He was a grandson of Mahendra I.34 Records of his reign are found at Hemavati and Hindupur in the Anantapur country.54

Family

The Hemavati pillar makes him the younger son of Nanniga, also called Ayyapa, son of Mahendra.3 His elder brother was Anniga, also called Bira Nolamba.3 B. Lewis Rice (1909) wrote that Anniga was defeated by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna III in 940.1 Dilipa then came to the throne.1 His son was Nanni-Nolamba, who had taken the crown by 969.2

His reign

Rice gave dated records of Dilipa for 943, 948, 951, 961 and 966.2 The genealogy on the Hemavati pillar ends with him.5 H. Krishna Sastri (1910) noted that the record of his time is dated Saka 864 (942–43; Saka is an Indian way of counting years).5

Below the tank at Hindupur is a stone of his reign.4 It names him Dilipayya Iriva-Nolamba, grandson of Mahendradhiraja.4 It records a gift of land by the three hundred leading men of Kaguru.4 The 1912–13 epigraphical report placed both Hindupur and Manepalle within the Nolamba lands.6

Subordinate chiefs and family

Rice wrote that the Vaidumbas served Iriva-Nolamba, and that he had brought the Mahavalis (the Banas) under him.2 V. Venkayya (1912) noted a stone of 961 at Yedarur in the Kolar district.7 It names a Bana chief, Sambayya, as a vassal of Iriva-Nolamba.7

His grandson Polalchora set up a pillar at Kambaduru on 6 March 965.8 It records a gift of land to keep up a tank.89 The 1912–13 report noted that this record also begins its family tree with Iriva-Nolamba.9 It falls in the time of the Rashtrakuta Krishna III.9

Footnotes

  1. Rice, Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions (1909), p. 56 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  2. Rice, Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions (1909), p. 57 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  3. B. Lewis Rice, Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions (1909), p. 55 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. V. Rangacharya, A Topographical List of the Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency, Vol. I (1919), p. 10, Anantapur No. 62 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. H. Krishna Sastri, “Two Nolamba Inscriptions from Dharmapuri”, Epigraphia Indica X (1909–10), p. 58 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  6. H. Krishna Sastri, Annual Report on Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for 1912–13, Part II, para. 13, p. 91 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  7. V. Venkayya, “Five Bana Inscriptions from Gudimallam”, Epigraphia Indica XI (1911–12), p. 238 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  8. Rangacharya, Topographical List I (1919), p. 20, Anantapur No. 127 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  9. Krishna Sastri, Annual Report on Epigraphy for 1912–13, Part II, para. 14, p. 92 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3

Dynasties

Nolamba-Pallavas

c. 800–974 CE

Branch of the Pallavas that ruled Nolambavadi, the 'Thirty-two Thousand' province of the Chitradurga and Tumkur country and most of the Anantapur district, from the 9th to the late 10th century, with Henjeru (Hemavati, Madakasira taluk) as a chief town. First feudatories of the Rashtrakutas and Gangas, they became powerful under Mahendra I, who claimed to have destroyed the Bana race. Their inscriptions in Anantapur are at Hemavati, Hindupur, Manepalle and Kambaduru, dated from 853 to 965. The Ganga Marasimha (died 974) took the title 'death to the Nolamba race'; later the Nolamba-Pallava title passed to chiefs under the Cholas and Western Chalukyas.

References

Sources (5)
  1. B. Lewis Rice, Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions (opens in a new tab), Archibald Constable, London, 1909, pp. 55–57. [Public domain]
  2. Sten Konow and V. Venkayya (eds.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. X (1909–10) (opens in a new tab), Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1910, pp. 58. H. Krishna Sastri, Two Nolamba Inscriptions from Dharmapuri. [Public domain]
  3. V. Rangacharya, A Topographical List of the Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency (collected till 1915), with Notes and References, Vol. I (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1919, pp. 10, 20. [Public domain]
  4. Madras Government (Assistant Archaeological Superintendent for Epigraphy), Annual Reports on Epigraphy, Southern Circle, for 1910-11 to 1914-15 (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1915, Report for 1912–13, Part II, pp. 91–92. [Public domain]
  5. Sten Konow (ed.), Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XI (1911–12) (opens in a new tab), Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta (scan of the ASI 1981 facsimile reprint), 1912, pp. 238. V. Venkayya, Five Bana Inscriptions from Gudimallam. [Public domain]

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