Battle of Kannegal

01A vassal turns

Hoysala inscriptions of Vishnuvardhana’s reign list Kannegal among his victories, won against the forces of the Chalukya emperor and the chiefs who served him. It came in a burst of expansion: Talakad and Gangavadi taken from the Cholas, Nolambavadi overrun, and the Hoysala frontier pushed north toward the Krishna. Vikramaditya VI was old but still strong, and his generals, notably the Sinda Achugi, struck back in the following years and checked the Hoysala advance.

02Vishnuvardhana and Belur

Vishnuvardhana, born Bittiga, is remembered as a devotee of Shri Ramanujacharya, who had come to the Hoysala country from the Chola lands. To mark his victories he raised the Chennakeshava temple at Belur, consecrated in 1117, and his officers began the Hoysaleshvara at Halebidu. His wars did not yet free the Hoysalas; full independence came under his grandson Ballala II, who broke both the Kalachuris and the Yadavas in the 1190s.

Person · Reigned 1076–1126 CEVikramaditya VIVikramaditya VI, Tribhuvanamalla, ruled the Western Chalukya empire from Kalyani for fifty years and started an era of his own, the Chalukya-Vikrama era, from his accession in 1076. His court gave India Bilhana’s Vikramankadevacharita and Vijnaneshvara’s Mitakshara, the commentary on the Yajnavalkya Smriti that still shapes Hindu family law.Read →