The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.26

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The record, however, which really starts us on our present inquiry, is an inscription on a stone-tablet at the Mêguṭi temple at Aihoḷe,—the ancient Ayyâvoḷe in Kanarese, and Âryapura in Sanskrit,—in the Bijâpur District.¹ It is of the time of Mangalêśa's successor, Pulikêśin II., and is dated in A. D. 634-35. And from it we learn that the dominant families in this part of the country, whom the Chalukyas first overthrew and dispossessed, were the Naḷas, the Mauryas, the Kadambas, and the Katachchuris or Kalachuris, and that in the neighbourhood of the kingdom which they thus established, they shortly afterwards came more or less in hostile contact with the Gaṅgas, the Âḷupas, the Lâṭas, the Mâḷavas, the Gurjaras, the Kôsalas, the Kaḷingas, the Pallavas, the Chôḷas, the Kêraḷas, and the Pâṇḍyas. The territories of some of these tribes have already been defined. As much as is known about the remainder of them will be put together in the following pages of this chapter, though some of it is connected more directly with somewhat later times.