Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.208

c18.208

The Châlukya family must have thrown out several branches of petty chiefs. One such has been brought to light by a copper-plate grant dated Śaka 1182, Raudra Saṁvatsara, which was in the possession of the Khot of Teravaṇ, a village in the Râjâpur tâluka of the Ratnâgiri district.⁸² The donor Keśava Mahâjanî was the minister of a Mahâmaṇḍaleśvara or chief of the name of Kâmvadeva, one of whose titles was "the sun that blows open the lotus bud in the shape of the Châlukya race." He is also called *Kalyâṇapuravarâdhîśvara* or "lord of Kalyâṇa the best of cities," which like several such titles of other chiefs⁸³ simply shows that he belonged to the family that once reigned with glory at Kalyâna The village conveyed by the grant was Teravâṭaka, identified with Teravaṇ itself, from which it would appear that Kâmvadeva was chief of that part of Konkan There is an inscription in the temple of Ambâbâi at Kolhâpur in which is recorded the grant of a village by Somadeva who belonged to the Châlukya family and reigned at Saṁgameśvara, which is twelve *kos* to the north-east of Ratnâgiri Somadeva was the son of Vetugideva and the father of the last was Karnadeva ⁸⁴ Probably the Kâmvadeva of the Teravaṇ grant belonged to this branch of the family There are still Marâṭhâ families of the name of Chalke reduced to poverty in the Saṁgameśvara Tâluka or in the vicinity