The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.108

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We have one record of his time,—the inscription on a pilaster in the verandah of the Vaishṇava cave at Bâdâmi.¹ It is dated in the twelfth year of his reign, on the full-moon day of the month Kârttika, 'Saka-Saṁvat 500 expired, corresponding to the 31st October, A.D. 578.² And it records that having, under his orders, finished the construction of the cave-temple, his younger brother, Maṅgalêśa, on the occasion of the installation of the image of Vishṇu, on the above date, granted gifts to Brâhmaṇs, and endowed the temple with a village named Lañjîśvara, which³ is the modern Nandikêshwar, close to Bâdâmi.