The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.54

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² This is, doubtless, the origin of the name of the three-eyed and four-armed Mayûravarman, the Mukkaṇṇa-Kadamba of one inscription, whom the tradition of the later Kâdambas of Banawâsi and Hângal placed at the head of their genealogy (chapter VIII. below).— The tradition of the Kâdambas of Goa derived their origin from the three-eyed and four-armed Jayanta, otherwise called Trilôchana-Kâḍamba, who sprang from a drop of sweat that fell to earth near the roots of a kadamba-tree from the forehead of the god Śiva after the conquest of Tripura (chapter VIII. below).— Mr. Rice says that the kadamba-tree appears to be one of the palms from which toddy is extracted (Mysore Inscriptions, p. xxxiii.)