The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.204.2

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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;