The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.151

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The râjyâbhiṣheka or coronation of Pulikêśin II. took place on some date, still remaining to be exactly determined, from Bhâdrapada śukla 1 of Śaka-Saṃvat 532 current, falling in A. D. 609, up to the pūrṇimānta Bhâdrapada kṛiṣhṇa 15, the new-moon day, Ś.-S. 533 current, falling in A. D. 610;² and it may probably be safely placed somewhere in the latter part of A. D. 609. His name appears in the variants of Polekêśin, Pulikêśin, and Pulakêśin.³ But he was plainly best known by the biruda of Satyâśraya, which takes the place of his proper name in all the formal charters of his own line, of later times than his own, and in all of the Eastern Chalukya records that mention him. In the Haidarâbâd grant he uses the epithet of pṛithivīvallabha, but, in the Neṛur grant, the plainer one of vallabha; and in the Udayêndiram grant of the Pallava king Nandivarman, he is spoken of, by the last-mentioned epithet, as "the vallabha-king" or "king Vallabha." The epithet used in the Gujarât records is vallabha. In the Eastern Chalukya records, it is sometimes vallabha, and sometimes vallabhêndra. But, in the subsequent western records, the epithet is always the full one of śrīpṛithivīvallabha. In his own two charters, he uses the title of Mahārāja, which is employed to denote him in the Sâtârâ grant of Viṣhṇuvardhana I., dated in his eighth year, and is attached to his name in the Karṇūl grants of the third and tenth years of Vikramâditya I. But in all the subsequent formal charters, the higher title of Mahārājādhirāja is substituted for it. He also acquired the regal title of Paramêśvara or "supreme lord," by the defeat of Harshavardhana which has already been spoken of.