Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c7.s4.6

c7.s4.6

There is such an action recorded. We are told that the Yādava king, Mahādeva, led his forces against those of the Śilāhāra king of Thāṇa, Somēśvara, and, according to the account of Hemadri, completely subdued him. Mahādeva invaded the Koṅkaṇ with an army consisting of a large number of elephants. Somēśvara was defeated upon land and is said to have then betaken himself to his ships. There somehow he met with his death, probably by drowning, for it is said that even the sea did not protect him, and that he betook himself to the submarine fire, thinking the fire of Mahādeva's to be more unbearable. The Koṅkaṇ was thereupon annexed by the Yādavas.²