Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c21.50

c21.50

It thus appears that the Yâdava empire became in the time of Singhaṇa as extensive as that ruled over by the ablest monarchs of the preceding dynasties The full title of a paramount sovereign are given to Singhaṇa in his inscriptions, such as "the support of the whole world," "the lover of the earth (*Prithvîvallabha*)," and "king of kings " Since Kṛishṇa, the eighth incarnation of Vishṇu, is represented in the Purânas to have belonged to the Yâdava family, the princes of Devagiri called themselves *Vishṇuvaṁśodbhava*,³¹ and as Kṛishṇa and his immediate descendants reigned at Dvârakâ, they assumed the title of *Dvâravatîpuravarâdhîśvara*, "the supreme lord of Dvâravatî, the best of cities "³² In the reign of Singhaṇa as well as of his two predecessors the office of chief secretary or *Śrîkaraṇâdhipa*, which in a subsequent reign was conferred on Hemâdri, was held by a man of the name of Soḍhala He was the son of Bhâskara, a native of Kaśmîr who had settled in the Dekkan Soḍhala's son Śarṅgadhara wrote in this reign a treatise on music entitled Saṁgîtaratnâkara which is extant³³ There is a commentary [112] on this work attributed to a king of the name of Siṅga who is represented as a paramount sovereign of the Andhra circle This Siṅga appears in all likelihood to be Siṅghaṇa, and the commentary was either written by him or dedicated to him by a dependant, as is often the case ³⁴ Châṅgadeva, the grandson of Bhâskarâchârya and son of Lakshmîdhara, was chief astrologer to Siṅghaṇa, and also Anantadeva, the grandson of Bhâskarâchârya's brother Śrîpati and son of Gaṇapati Châṅgadeva founded a Maṭha or college for the study of his grandfather's Siddhântaśiromaṇi and other works at Pâṭnâ in the Châlîsgaṁv division of the Khândes district, and Anantadeva built a temple at a village in the same division and dedicated it to Bhavânî on the 1st of Chaitra in the Śaka year 1144 *expired* ³⁵