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Tarini Devi (Tarinidevi)
Mahishi, Mahadevi, Bhattarika
Chalukya regent
Reign642-651
SuccessorVijaya-Bhattarika
SpousePulakeshin II
IssueChandraditya
FatherKing Kulabhadra

Tarinidevi, also known as Tarini Mahadevi was a second wife of Pulakeshin II and mother of Chandraditya. Her father, King Kulabhadra, married her to Pulakeshi II after the defeating of Harshavardhana. She was a delight and honourable wife of Pulakeshin II and he fell in love with her, before her marriage. The marriage took place in a happy manner and celebrated with pomp and show. Soon, after, Tarinidevi and Pulakeshin II had a son named Chandraditya. Pulakeshin also married a daughter of Durvinita, who was his first wife.

This story goes like this when King Kulabhadra marries her to great Chalukya King called Pulakeshin II and lived with him happily. Chandraditya was the third son of Pulakeshin II but is not mentioned in sources. Queen Tarini Mahadevi's story is written on the basic line like Tirumala Devi, wife of King Krishnadevaraya. She was spelled Tarinidevi and Tarini Mahadevi respectively. Queen Vijaya-Bhattarika (alias Vijaya-Mahadevi) was her successor. In the stone inscriptions of her stepson, Vikramaditya I, she is mentioned as the ancestor of Chinnadevi and Tirumaladevi.