The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.60

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Of Mrigêsavarman, we have three grants, all issued at Vaijayantî. One, from Dêvagere, is dated in the month Kârttika (Oct.-Nov.) in the third year of his reign; in the Pausha saṃvatsara;¹ and it records a grant of land, at a village named Brihat-Paralûr, to “the gods, the supreme Arhats.”² Another, also from Dêvagere,³ is dated in the eighth fortnight of the rainy season in the fourth year of his reign, without any reference to the cycle of Jupiter; and records that a village named Kâlavangâ was divided into three portions, which were given, one to “the gods,—the divine Arhat or Arhats, and the great Jinêndra,” one to the community of the ascetics of the Svêtapata sect, and one to the community of the ascetics of the Nirgrantha sect. And the third, from Halsî,⁴ is dated in the month Kârttika (Oct.-Nov.) in the eighth year of his reign, in the Vaiśâkha saṃvatsara; and records that Mrigêśavarman caused a temple of Jina to be built, and gave some land to the divine Arhats, for the Yâpanîyas, Nirgranthas, and Kûrchakas, at Palâśikâ. In the grants of his third and fourth years, Mrigêśavarman has the paramount title of Mahârâja, which in Southern India, at this time, still retained its original paramount meaning.⁵ In the latter, his name occurs twice as Vijaya-Siva-Mrigêśavarman; on account of which it has been suggested that he is the Mahârâja Sivakumâra, who is mentioned by Bâlachandra, in his introductory remarks on the Prâbhritasâra, as having for his preceptor the well-known Âchârya Padmanandi-Kuṇḍakunda.⁶ In the grant of his eighth year, it is said that he overturned the lofty Gaṅga family, and was a fire of destruction to the Pallavas.