The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.107

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these territories lay so far away to the north and east, that the claim that is made in respect of them is plainly only a mere boast. And the mention of Kêraḷa, Pâṇḍya, Dramila, and Chôḷiya, has probably not much more substance in it. Vaijayantî, however, was, as we have already seen, Banawâsi in North Kaṇara, and was the principal capital of the Kâdambas; and the reduction of it by Kîrtivarman I. is not only implied by his conquest of the Kâdambas, but is also specifically recorded in the formal charters, which speak of him as "establishing the banner of his pure fame in the territories of the hostile kings of Vanavâsî and other (cities), that had been invaded by his prowess." And he may easily have come in conflict with some rulers of the Western Gaṅga territory in Mysore, which was adjacent to his own possessions.