The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c9.s2.t75.1

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The early Yādavas are also called ‘Yādavas of Seuna-dēśa’, and date from about the middle of the eighth century A. D., but they do not come in contact with Southern India, so far as our knowledge goes, till the time of Bhillama, son of Mallugi, who obtained the sovereignty of Kalyāṇa, founded the city of Dēvagiri and defied the Hoyśala king, the Yādava Ballāḷa II. Bhillama was crowned at Dēvagiri about 1187. Fierce war followed, ending in the defeat of Bhillama's minister Jaitrasimha at Lakkuṇḍi, by which victory the Hoyśala dynasty became rulers of the Kuntala-dēśa (*I. A. ii. 300*; *See Bombay Gazetteer I, Pt. II, pp. 231 f*; *R. G. Bhandarkar. Early History of the Dekkan,* *pp. 75 f*).