The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.52

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any clue as to how he came to be holding that rank, or indicat in any way how the family had risen to power. This informati has now been supplied by an interesting record, of the time of Sânt varman, obtained by Mr. Rice from Tâlgund in Mysore, whic gives the following account:¹— There was a family of Brâhman Hâritîputras, and born in the Mânavya gôtra, who always plante the kadamba-tree (Nauclea Cadamba) in the neighbourhood of the houses, and carefully tended it. From this, the family came to b known as the Kadamba family. And in it there was born a certain Mayûraśarman,² who went, with his preceptor, Vîraśarman, to th city (or a city) of the Pallavas,³— having a desire to master, in a ver brief time, the whole of the sacred writings that are designated by the term pravaçana. He was interrupted, in his studies, by a great com motion in the stables of the Pallavas. And, enraged at this, he set him self to shew that, even in the Kali age, Brâhmans could be as powerfu as the members of the warrior and regal caste. He applied himself to war,— conquered the guardians of the frontier of the Pallava kings, — established himself in a forest, difficult of access, in front of the Śrîparvata mountain,⁴— and levied taxes from the Bânas and other kings. The kings of Kâñchî, i.e. the Pallavas, sought to overthrow him, and attacked him in many battles when he was marching through difficult country, and by surprises at night when he was encamped. But with the "very ocean of an army" that he had got together, he destroyed their forces, and brought them low. And, at last, the Pallava kings recognising his prowess and ancestry, thought it better to make friend with him; and they conferred on him the pattabandha or binding of the fillet of sovereignty, and gave him a territory on the shore the western ocean, with a promise that it should be free from invasi His son was Kanguvarman. His son was Bhagîratha. His son w Raghu, who "made the (whole) earth subject to his family,"— of which the meaning seems to be, that he first placed the power of the famil on a really firm and wide footing. And his brother was Bhagîrathi who established his reputation under the name of Kâkusthavarman.