The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.204.3

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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).