The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.406

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Some extraneous items of information regarding this line of kings, are furnished by two of the Western Chalukya records. Îśvarapôtavarman, as a variant of the name of Paramêśvaravarman I., is taken from the Haidarâbâd grant,⁴ which claims that Vikramâditya I. "rubbed out the fame of Narasiṁha (Narasiṁhavarman I.), destroyed the power of Mahêndra (Mahêndravarman II.), and surpassed Îśvara (Paramêśvaravarman I.) in statesmanship, and thus bruised the Pallavâs;" and that, "conquering Îśvarapôtarâja, he took Kâñchî, whose huge walls were insurmountable and hard to be broken, which was surrounded by a large moat that was unfathomable and hard to be crossed, and which resembled the girdle (kâñchî) of the southern region." And the Vakkalêri grant⁵ tells us that Vikramâditya II. (A. D. 733-34 to 746-47), having resolved to uproot completely his "natural enemy,"⁶ the Pallava, reached, with great speed, the Tuṇḍâka vishaya, attacked and put to flight the Pallava Nandipôtavarman (i. e. Nandivarman, son of Hiranyavarman), who had come to withstand him, took possession of his club-banner and his musical instruments called kaṭumukha or "harsh-sounding" and samudraghôsha or "roar of the sea,"⁷ and then entered,⁸ without destroying it, the city of Kâñchî, where he acquired great merit by granting heaps of gold to the Râjasimhêśvara and other stone temples which Narasimhapôtavarman had caused to be built.