Vijayāditya III

Vijayāditya III was a king of the Eastern Cāḷukya dynasty, which reigned from Vengi in modern-day Andhra. He ruled for 44 years in the middle of the ninth century, during which time he is said (in the copper-plate grant of Amma I) to have defeated the Raṭṭas (i.e., the Rāṣṭrakūṭas) and the Gaṅgas in battle. He is specifically said to have "burned the city of Kṛṣṇa," probably the Rāṣṭrakūṭa king Kṛṣṇa III.

He is also known for his association with a Kannada text on prosody and metrics, which is called (in Tamil) Kuṇakāṅkiyam (i.e., Guṇagāṅkīyam), after one of Vijayāditya's titles, Guṇagāṅka. The text is now lost, but it is mentioned in Kuṇacākarar's Virutti on Amitacākarar's Yāpparuṅkalakkārikai.