Beta II
Beta II (r. c. 1076-1108 CE) alias Tribhuvana-malla was a member of the Kakatiya dynasty of southern India. As a Kalyani Chalukya vassal, he obtained control of the Sabbi-1000 province centred around Vemulavada. He commissioned a Shaivite shrine, and also donated land for a Jaina temple. Career Beta II was a son of the Kakatiya chief Prola I. His earliest extant inscription is the 1079 CE Anumakonda inscription, which calls him Shriman Vikrama-chakri Shri Beta-mandalikottamah. His overlord, the Kalyani Chalukya king Vikramaditya VI, appears to have conferred the title Vikrama-chakrin upon him. His reign probably started around the time when Vikramaditya VI ascended the throne in 1076 CE. The 1082 CE Banajipet inscription describes him as Maha-mandaleshvara Betarasa ("king Beta"), the lord of Anmakonda-pura (city of Anumakonda). The Kakatiya inscriptions generally refer to him as Tribhuvana-malla; this title probably signifies his submission to Vikramaditya, who held the same title. Beta appears to have been involved in a dispute with other Chalukya vassals over the control of the historical Sabbi-nadu region centered around Vemulavada. The 1053 CE Sanigaram inscription of Prola I states that the Chalukya king rewarded him with the territory of Sabbi-nadu. The Kakatiya inscriptions found at Sanigaram (including