The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.182.4

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And, that there really was, just before or just after Muttarasa-Srîpurusha, a reigning king named Sivamâra, referable to the same lineage, is proved by a genuine, but undated, stone inscription, of his time, at Dêbûr in Mysore,⁴ engraved in well-formed characters of the same period. The record does not connect any title with his name; and it contains nothing that helps us to decide his identity: but it uses an expression which stamps him as a paramount sovereign. As far, therefore, as individual names go, the history of the Western Gangas starts with these two persons, Srîpurusha-Muttarasa and Sivamâra and either of them may be the Ganga king who was conquered and imprisoned by the Râshtrakûta king Dhruva (between A. D. 754 and 783-84), and was liberated, but afterwards had to be placed in confinement again, by that king's son Gôvinda III. (A. D. 783-84 to 814-815).⁵ Shortly after this,