The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.115

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An incidental reference in one of the Kadamba records has introduced us to the Sêndraka family, of which the representative in Harivarman's time was Bhânuśakti. We have also the following information about this family:—The Chiplûn grant, from the Ratnâgiri District,¹ of the Western Chalukya king Pulikêśin II. (A. D. 609 to 642), mentions the Sêndraka prince Śrîvallabha-Sênânandarâja as his maternal uncle. A grant from Bagumrâ in the Nausârî District of the Gaikwâr's territory,² giving a short genealogy of Sêndraka princes, furnishes the names of Bhânuśakti; his son, Âdityaśakti; and his son, Pṛithivîvallabha-Nikumbhallaśakti, with a date in the year 406, which, referred to the Kalachuri or Chêdi era,⁴ fell in A. D. 655. The grant of the tenth year of the Western Chalukya king Vikramâditya I., obtained from the Karṇûl District in Madras, and belonging to about A. D. 664, records that he bestowed the village of Raṭṭagiri at the request of the Râja Dêvaśakti of the Sêndraka family.⁵ And an inscription at Balagâmve, in Mysore,⁶ shews that the Sêndraka Mahârâja Pogilli was a feudatory⁷ of the Western Chalukya king Vinayâditya (A.D. 680 to 697),—that his government comprised the Nâyarkhanda district, i. e. the Nâgarakhaṇḍa division of the Banavâsi province,⁸ and the village of Jedugûr or Jeḍugûr,⁹ which may perhaps be identified with Jeḍḍa in the Sorab tâluka, Shimoggâ District, Mysore,—and, probably, that the crest of the Sêndrakas was an elephant. Further, in connection with a Satyâśraya who is probably intended to be Pulikêśin II., one of the Lakshmêshwar inscriptions gives the name of Durgaśakti, son of Kundaśakti, son of Vijayaśakti, in the race of the Sêndra kings, who are allotted by this record to the lineage of the Bhujagêndras or serpent kings.¹⁰