The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.29

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The Naḷas are mentioned in connection with Kîrtivarman I., who was the father of Pulikêśin II. and reigned from A. D. 566 or 567 to 597 or 598. He is described as "the night of destruction to the Naḷas, the Mauryas, and the Kadambas." And again, in the Kauthêm grant of Vikramâditya V., dated in A. D. 1009,² and in some similar records which also purport to give the history of the Chalukyas from the very commencement,³ he is spoken of as "destroying the habitations of the Naḷas." Not much else is known about Naḷas. But we have evidently the name of their territory, with probably an indication that it lay in the direction of Beḷḷâry and Karṇûḷ, in the Naḷavâḍi vishaya which is mentioned in the copper-plate grant of Vikramâditya I. of about A. D. 657.⁴