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Someshvara I
Someshvara I, also called Ahavamalla, was king of the Western Chalukya Empire from 1042 to 1068. He made Kalyani his capital and fought a long series of wars with the Cholas, in which the Chola king Rajadhiraja I was killed at Koppam in 1054, but he was later defeated by Virarajendra Chola at Kudalasangamam. Suffering from an incurable illness, he drowned himself in the Tungabhadra in 1068.
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