The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.180

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hereditary titles of Kovalâla-, Kuvalâla-, or Kôlâla-puravar-êsvara or “lord of Kovalâla, Kuvalâla, or Kôlâla, the best of towns,” with reference to Kôlâr, and of Nandagiri-nâtha or “lord of the mountain Nandagiri,” with reference doubtless, as Mr. Rice has said,¹ to the modern Nandidurg, a hill-fort about thirty-six miles north of Kôlâr; these titles seem to appear first in connection with the first Nîtimârga-Kongunivarma-Permanadi, in the early part of the ninth century A. D.