Part 15 - Bettarasa A.D. (1121-1125)

Bettarasa had a reign of nearly five years. In A D. 1122 and the 3rd year of Parakesarivarman alias chakravartin Srivikrama chola deva, mahamandalesvara Bettarasa ruling Pottapinadu made a grant for the success of the king’s arms at Nandalur Bettarasa’s identification with Beta I of the Nellore cholas cannot be justified on chronological ground. In A.D. 1125 Bettarasa was succeeded by Vimaladitya MPC.

His Political Relations

Atyana chola ruling Renadu was a contemporary. If Bettarasa and a subordinate of Vikramaditya VI of the Chalukyas. His father Sevena C.M. bore a long prasasti some epithets attesting his capacity as a warrior. Sevana’s emblem was a lion (simha lanchana) and his flag has the peacock’s tail figure on it. In A.D. 1124, Krodhin and C.V. 46 (49) in the reign of Tribhuvanamalla Chiddana C.M.—a subordinate of Atyana Chola and the ruler of Renadippattuie Renadu 70 district granted Mudivemu to 108 mahajanas of the place. A feudatory of the Chiddana C.M. is mentioned in a record from Peddmudiyam in (Jammalamudygu taluq) Atyana chola bore the Cuddapah chola titles, and it has been said that he perhaps belonged to the family of the Chola Maharajas Betta and Atyana owing allegiance to the cholas and the chalukyas respectively, were ruling Pottapinadu and Renadu, and do not seem to have come into conflict with each other.