The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c9.s2.t75.4

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(3) *Singhaṇa's* defeat of Hoyśala Ballāḷa II is testified to by an inscription of Singhaṇa's at Gadag in Dhārwār of date A. D. 1213-14 (*I. A. ii. 297*). Singhaṇa was ruling in Shimōga district Mysore in 1218, 1237 and 1241 (*E. C. viii, 250, 256, 387*). One record says that his general Bichana erected a triumphal column on the bank of the Kāvēri river (*J. B. B. R. A. S. xv, 386; xii, 43*). The date of this is 1238-9. Bichana was Singhaṇa's viceroy in the south.