The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.243

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The Aḷupas, as we have seen above, are mentioned in the Aihole inscription, in conjunction with the Gaṅgas, as being subjugated by Pulikêśin II. about A. D. 608; under the same name, in the Sorab grant of Vinayâditya, dated in A. D. 692, which records that, while camped at the village of Chitrasedu in the Toramara *vishaya*, he granted the village of Sâḷivogê, in the Edevoḷal *vishaya*, at the request of the Mahârâja Chitravâha, son of the Aḷupa ruler Guṇasâgara;² under the name of Aḷuvas, in the Harihar grant of the same king, dated in A. D. 694, which speaks of them, with the Gaṅgas, as hereditary servants of the Western Chaḷukyas, and records that Vinayâditya granted the village of Kiru-Kâgâmâsi, in the Edevoḷal *vishaya*, at the request of an unnamed Aḷupa chief;³ and, under the name of Aḷupas again, as foes of the Western Chaḷukyas in later times, in a record of the Kâdambas of Goa which says that they were conquered by Jayakêśin I. (about A. D. 1052-53),⁴ and in the *Vikramâṅkadêvacharita* of Biḷhaṇa.⁵ Who the Aḷupas precisely were, has still to be ascertained. But, if they are identical with the Aḷukas, who are included among the hostile peoples whose kings, according to the Mahâkûṭa pillar inscription, were conquered by Kîrtivarman I. between A. D. 567 and 597,⁶ then, as *aḷuka* is an epithet of Śêsha, the chief of the serpent race, we may perhaps have in them a division of the Nâgas.⁷ And the passages in the grants of Vinayâditya seem to indicate that they had the feudatory government of the Edevoḷal *vishaya*, which lay just on the north-east of Banavâsi, and may perhaps be identified with the Ede-nâḍ seventy of other records.⁸