The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.198

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³ The exact title in the original is *dharma-Mahârâjâdhirâja*, as regards which see page 320 above, note 1. In the present case, the title very probably denotes paramount sovereignty. It appears to have been borne by all the subsequent leading members of the family. But, in their case, how far it denotes independent sovereignty, or how far it was simply a hereditary title,—they being, in reality, feudatories, though possibly often half-independent,—it is difficult to say. The epithets "lord of the town of Kovalâla" and "lord of the mountain Nandagiri" also became hereditary titles. I offer here only an outline of the history of the Western Gaṅgas, leaving details to be fully worked out on some other occasion. I deal now with mostly the dated records, putting aside those which simply mention a Satyavâkya, a Nitimârga, &c., to be attributed to the proper persons, hereafter, when all the subordinate items of information in them can be examined and arranged.