The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c12.194

c12.194

BASAVA: Brāhman of Bāgevāḍi, becomes prime minister of the Kaḷachurya Vijjana, with his nephew founds the Lingāyat sect and spends the king's treasure in supporting the priests of the new sect; plans the king's death; his end, 225-227; incarnation of Nandi, 478 and note 2; declares himself a special Śiva worshipper; is persecuted by Bráhmans and returns to Kappadi; is made his prime minister by the Kalachurya Bijjala, marries Bijjala's sister Nílalochana, 478-479; different versions about his death, 480-481. BASAVALLI: province, 449, 454. BASAVANNA: temple of, at Háveri, inscription at, 459 note 3. BASAVA-PURÁNA: sacred book of the Lingáyats, 437 note 5; 478; 479; 482 note 2. BASAVURA: province, 439, 443, 450. BASIRÁJA: officer of the Gutta prince Víra Vikramáditya II., 582. BASSEIN: town, 142, 543; grant (1069), 512, 513, 514 note 1, 515; record at, 518; headquarters of the Devgiri Yádav viceroys, 25; district and port of Gujarát kings, 30; place next in importance to Chaul and Dábhol and timber and building-stone mart, 36; port; besieged by the Moghals (1612), 40; burnt by the Portuguese (1529), attacked by the Portuguese (1533), ceded to the Portuguese (1534), besieged by a Gujarát force (1539), 46; Magistrate's and District Judge's Court, judicial establishment and jail in, 52; its revenue, 53; Portuguese fortress and headquarters of the General of the North; extension of the district of; artillery at, 54; visit of St. Xavier to, and establishment of a Jesuit seminary at, 56; establishment of the college of Purification at, 57; prohibitions of temples, feasts, ceremonies, preaching by Bráhmans, ablutions and burnings in (1555), 59; Christian descendants of Prabhus in, 60; port, frequented by the English and the Dutch ships without hindrance, 63; Fidalgo buildings and Portuguese remains and churches at, 65; decline of 72; invited by Sambháji, 78; capitulated to the Maráthás (1739), 99; place of residence of the Sarsubhedár, 99; restored to the Maráthás (1782), 106; treaty of (1802), 111, 608, 628, 663; its condition (1818), 125. BATPÚRA: family, 349. BATTEYÚR: village, 369. BAVÁJI: hill, 421. BÁVALADEVÍ: queen of Sovideva the Kalachuri king, pleases the king with a song and obtains his permission to make a grant of land, 227. See Sávaladeví. BAX: of the Bráhmans, 114. BAYALUNÁD: conquered by Vishnuvardhana, 497. BEATI: 5. BEDNUR: treaty of (1766), 659. BEDSÁ: inscription at, 143, 144; caves at, 141, 176. BEGÚR: inscription at, 304, 379 note 2. BEHATTI: grant from, 469, 489, 526, 527. BELADORI: Arab writer, 4. BELAGÁVE: 369. See Balagáve. BELÁPUR: fort, built by Sambháji, 77. BELÁPURA: modern Belúr, 491; ruled over by Ballála I., 494; taken by Permádi I., 575. See Velápura and Belupura.