Tondaya II (Tondarasa) of Kandur

Tondaya II, called Tondarasa in his Kannada records, was a chief of the Kandur Chodas. In 1088 a Tondarasa of Kandur was governing the Kollipake (Kolanupaka) seven-thousand province for the Western Chalukya king Vikramaditya VI.¹ P. V. Parabrahma Sastry identified this Tondarasa with Tondaya II.²³

The Kolanupaka inscriptions

A Kannada inscription at Kolanupaka is dated in the thirteenth year of the Chalukya-Vikrama era.¹ Its date is the winter solstice, which P. B. Desai equated with 24 December 1088.¹ It introduces the feudatory (subordinate chief) of the Western Chalukya Vikramaditya VI, the mahamandalesvara (great provincial lord) Tondarasa Chola-maharaja of Kandur.¹

The record traces him to the solar race and to the line of the Chola hero Karikala.¹ It makes him lord of Kodur, first among towns, and has him governing the Kollipake seven-thousand province.¹ It records his gift of land to the god Uttaresvara, received by Ramesvara Pandita of the Kalamukha lineage.¹ See the Kolanupaka inscription of Tondarasa.

A second, undated inscription there is damaged.⁴ It introduces a feudatory with the same titles, ruling the same province, who gave a gift to Vishnu.⁴

Family and dates

Parabrahma Sastry read the Ollala inscription as giving this line of descent:²⁵

• Eruva Bhima I, lord of Panugallu²⁵
• his son Tondaya I²⁵
• Tondaya’s son Choda Bhima II²⁵
• Bhima II’s sons Tondaya II, Iyuga, a third whose name is lost, and Malla, or Mallikarjuna, who granted the village of Ollala to his minister in 1098²⁵

He identified the Tondarasa of Kolanupaka with Tondaya II.²³ He thought that Tondaya held power while his aged father was still alive.²³ He also cited an unpublished inscription of Tondaya II at Panugallu, of Chalukya-Vikrama year 15 (1091).²³ It records grants to a Brahman who carried the ashes of Bhima II to the Ganga and offered funeral cakes at Gaya.²³

Parabrahma Sastry took him to be the husband of Mailamba, whose inscription at Panugallu is dated in Saka 1046 (1124; Saka is an Indian way of counting years).³ The inscription itself has lost her husband’s name.⁶ It names her three sons, king Udayaditya, king Bhima and king Gokarna.⁶³ It records her gift of an agrahara (village granted to Brahmans) to 108 Brahmans for the welfare of Bhima.⁶³

Parabrahma Sastry took the record as issued after Tondaya’s time.³⁷ He took the Bhima of it as Bhima III, then lord of Panugallu.³⁷ See the Panugallu inscription of Mailamba, Bhima Choda III and Udaya Choda II.

Footnotes

1. Desai, Kannada Inscriptions of Andhra Pradesh (1961), p. 19, No. 50 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. P. V. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 64. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

3. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 65. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰

4. P. B. Desai, introduction to P. Sreenivasachar, Kannada Inscriptions of Andhra Pradesh (Andhra Pradesh Government Archaeological Series 3, 1961), p. 18, No. 48 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩²

5. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 69. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

6. P. Sreenivasachar (ed.), A Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of H.E.H. the Nizam’s Dominions, Part II (1940), pp. 105–108, No. 36 (archive.org↗ (opens in a new tab)). Paraphrased. ↩ ↩² ↩³

7. Parabrahma Sastry, The Kakatiyas of Warangal (1978), p. 66. ↩ ↩²