The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.204

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Mysore,¹ supplies the date of Saka-Samvat 831 (expired), = A. D. 909-910. We know that shortly after this time there was a king named Ereyappa. We may, therefore, place next an inscription at Iggali, in Mysore,² which mentions another Satyavakya-Kongunivarma-Permanadi and Ereyappa, and records occurrences that took place in the twenty-second year of this Satyavakya, i. e. not earlier than A. D. 930-31, as shewn by the recorded date of the preceding Nitimarga. This Satyavakya must have been immediately succeeded, and soon after that date, by Ereyappa, whom the Begur inscription, from Mysore, mentions as reigning over the Gangavadi province, and fighting with a certain Vira-Mahendra.³ Ereyappa was succeeded by his son Rachamalla. From an inscription at Atakur, in Mysore,⁴ we learn that Rachamalla was attacked and killed by Satyavakya-Kongunivarma-Permanadi-Butuga or Butayya, who had the birudas or secondary names of Nanniya-Ganga, "the truthful Ganga," Jayad-uttaramga, "the arch of victory," Ganga-Gangeya, "a very Karttikeya, Karna, or Bhishma, among the Gangas," and Ganga-Narayana, "a very god Vishnu among the Gangas," and who thereby acquired the Gangavadi province; this occurred in or shortly before A. D. 940. An inscription at Hebbal, in the Dharwar District,⁵ tells us that (between A. D.

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911-12 and 940) Butuga married a daughter of the Rashtrakuta king Amoghavarsha-Vaddiga, receiving, as her dowry, the districts known as the Puligere or Purigere three-hundred, which was the country that lay round, and was named after the ancient name of, Lakshmeshwar, in the Miraj State, within the limits of the Dharwar District,⁶ the Belvola three-hundred, which lay in the same neighbourhood and included, as various records shew, Gadag, Annigere, Kurtakoti, and Nargund, in Dharwar, Huli in the Belgaum District, and Kukkanur in the Nizam's Dominions,¹—the Kisukâḍ seventy, which was a small district of which the chief town was Pattadakal, the ancient Kisuvolal and Pattada-Kisuvolal, in the Bâdâmi tâluka, Bijâpur District,²—and the Bâge, Bâgenâḍ, or Bâgadage seventy, which was another small district lying round Bâgalkôt, the ancient Bâgadage and Bâgadige, the chief town of the Bâgalkôt tâluka in the same district.³ And the Âtakûr inscription further shews that, in or about the Saumya saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 872 (current), = A.D. 949-50, the Râshṭrakûṭa king Krishna III. (A.D. 940 and 956) confirmed him in the possession of the above-mentioned four districts, and also gave him the Banavâsi twelve-thousand, as a reward for treacherously slaying, at a place named Takkôla, the Chôḷa king Râjâditya, with whom Krishna III. was then at war. Like his predecessors, Bûtuga used the title Mahârâjâdhirâja;

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but, while probably half-independent, he appears also to have acknowledged the suzerainty of the Râshṭrakûṭas. The Hebbâḷ inscription tells us that the son of Bûtuga and the daughter of Amôghavarsha-Vaddiga was Maruḷadêva. To Maruḷadêva and Bijabbe, it says, there was born a son, whom it perhaps names as Rachcha-Gaṅga. And, it continues, immediately after this person had reigned, there came another son of Bûtuga, by his wife Kallabbarasi, who was named Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-Permanadi-Mârasimha, with a variety of birudas such as Chaḷad-uttaraṅga, "the arch of firmness of character," Dharmâvatâra, "the incarnation of religion," Jagadêkavîra, "the sole hero of the world," Gaṅgara-simha, "the lion of the Gaṅgas," Gaṅgavajra, "the Gaṅga diamond or thunderbolt," Gaṅga-Kandarpa, "the Gaṅga god of love," and Noḷamba-kul-Ântaka, "the Death of the family of the Noḷambas," i. e. the Pallavas," and was plainly a very great personage indeed. He is evidently the Satyavâkya-Permanadi, in connection with whom an inscription at Kârya, in Mysore,⁴ cites the Prabhava saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 890 (current), = A.D. 967-68, as his fifth year,—shewing that he was crowned to the Gaṅga succession in Ś.-S. 886 current, = A.D. 963-64;—and the Mârasimha-Permâḍi, news of whose death, as we learn from an inscription at Mêḷagaṇi,⁵ reached the Pallava king Pallavâditya-Noḷambâdhirâja in or just before the month Âshâḍha (June-July), falling in A.D. 974, of the Bhâva saṁvatsara, Ś.-S. 896 (expired).

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An inscription at Lakshmêshwar, within the Dhârwâr District,⁶ mentioning him with the paramount title of Paramêśvara as well as Mahârâjâdhirâja, and speaking of "Mârasimha" as his prathamâ-nâmadhêya or first