The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.448.3

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Sômêśvara I., the son and successor of Jayasiṁha II., perhaps married a Pallava princess; this would explain why his son Jayasiṁha III. not only had the title of "lord of Kâñchî, the best of cities," and bore the designations of Trailôkyamalla-Noḷamba-Pallava-Permâḍi-Jayasiṁhadêva, but also is described as being of the Pallava lineage.¹ The eldest son of Sômêśvara I., Bhuvanaikamalla-Sômêśvara II., claims to have subdued, and levied tribute from, the Chêra, Chôḷa, Pâṇḍya, and Pallava kings.² His younger brother, Vikramâditya VI., humbled the Pallavas.³ And a successor of the latter, Perma-Jagadêkamalla II., claims to have destroyed the Pallava king, and to have ruled over the Pallava kingdom.⁴ The Hoysala prince Viṣṇuvardhana is spoken of as "a forest fire to the country of the chief of the Toṇḍa maṇḍala," and as capturing the Nolambavâḍi territory.⁵ His grandson, Baḷḷâḷa II., is described as terrifying the kings of Lâḷa (i.e. Lâṭa), Gurjara, Gauḷa, Chôḷa, and Pallava.⁶ And finally, the Pallava king is mentioned among the contemporaries of the Dêvagiri-Yâdava king Siṅghaṇa.⁷ These references, however, are all very vague, and simply shew that the Pallavas continued to exist, and to exercise some kind of power, till as late as the thirteenth century A. D. And the latest individual mention that has been traced, is that of the Pallava prince Karuṇâkara-Toṇḍaimân, who in the period A. D.