The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.217.3

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971, when Mârasimha was governing the Gaṅgavâḍi ninety-six-thousand, the Puḷigere three-hundred, and the Beḷvola three-hundred, under the Râshtrakûṭa king Khoṭṭiga, he himself was governing a small circle of villages which was known as the Sebbi thirty and probably took its appellation from the ancient name of Chabbi or Chebbi in the Hubḷi tâluka, Dhârwâr District; and in the Guṇḍûr inscription,⁴ which mentions him as governing a ninety-six district in A. D. 973: this ninety-six district has not been identified; but possibly the expression is an abbreviation for the Gaṅgavâḍi ninety-six thousand, which Mârasimha,—mentioned in the same record in connection with only the Puḷigere three-hundred and the Beḷvola three-hundred, — may have entrusted to Pañchaladêva. Shortly after Pañchaladêva, there was a Satyavâkya-Kôṅguṇivarma-Râchamalla-Permanadi, for whom an inscription at Kiggatnâḍ, in Coorg,⁵ furnishes a date in the month Phâlguna (Feb.-March), falling in A. D. 978, of the Îśvara saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 899 (expired); and probably an inscription at Doḍḍa-Homma, in Mysore,⁶ furnishes a date in the preceding year;⁷ and he appears to have had a rather famous minister named Châmuṇḍarâya, who wrote the Châmuṇḍarâya-Purâṇa and set up the colossal image of Gommataêśvara at Śravaṇa-Beḷgoḷa.⁸ And this person was probably the last of the independent or semi-independent Western Gaṅga princes.