The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.448.2

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974, of the Bhâva saṃvatsara, Śaka-Saṃvat 896 (expired), when news of Mârasimha's death reached the Pallava king. And an inscription at Kandavâra, in Mysore,¹⁰ gives the name of a Pallava king Immadi- or Irmaḍi-Noḷambâdhirâja, i. e. "the second Noḷambâdhirâja," with a date in the month Chaitra (March-April), falling in A. D. 977, of the Îśvara saṃvatsara, Śaka-Saṃvat 899 (expired). After this, however, the available references to the Pallavas cease to mention them as paramount kings, and mostly cease to have any individuality; from which, it is probably to be inferred that about this time they lost their sovereign power, and sank into the position of mere feudatories and officials. The Western Gaṅga minister Châmuṇḍarâya, whose period was about A. D. 980, is described as "a very Death to the family of the Noḷambas."¹¹ A daughter of the Western Châlukya king Irivabeḍaṅga-Satyâśraya (about A. D. 1000) was married to a Pallava prince named Iriva-Noḷambâdhirâja, also called Ghaṭeya-Aṅkakâra, who in A. D. 1010-11¹¹ was governing the Nolambavâḍi thirty-two-thousand, the Keṅgali thousand, the Ballakunde three-hundred, the Kukkanûr thirty, and five towns in the Mâsavâḍi country, under Vikramâditya V. Records of the time of Jayasiṁha II., the successor of Vikramâditya V., mention a Pallava named Noḷamba-Pallava-Bommaṇayya, who in A. D. 1040-41 and 1042-43 was governing the five towns in the Mâsavâḍi country.