The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.387

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Vidyâvinîta, Paramêśvaravarman I. granted a village to the god Śiva, who, under the form of Pinâkapâni, had been installed in the temple of Vidyâvinîta-Pallava-Paramêśvara at the village of Kûra. The period of this record is fixed by the mention of Vikramâditya; he being defeated by the grandson of a king who had inflicted disaster upon a city named Vâtâpi and a king named Pulakêśin, it is impossible to accept any conclusion, except that he is the Western Chalukya king Vikramâditya I. (A. D. 655 to 680), and,—if only on the consideration that at least sixty-seven years intervened between him and his great-grandfather Pulikêśin I.,—that the Pulakêśin of this record is his father Pulikêśin II., who reconstructed the Chalukya power at Bâdâmi (Vâtâpi) in A. D. 608-609 and reigned till about A. D. 642.