The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.382

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⁸ The record mentions Paramēśvaravarman's elephant named Arivāraṇa, "warding off enemies", and horse named Atiśaya, "eminence." Other instances of the naming of favourite animals are afforded by the Chalukya records, which give to the charger of Vikramāditya I. the name of Chitrakantha, "speckle-throat" (e. g., Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 78); by the Gōdāvarī grant of Prithivīmūla, which mentions the elephants Kumuda, "water-lily," and Supratīka "the handsome one" (Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XVI. p. 119); and by the Ātakūr inscription, which gives to Rājaditya's elephant the name of Chōḷana-kōṭe, "the fortress of the Chōḷa" (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II. p. 173).