[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s12.161.2 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.161.2 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.161.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s12.161.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.161.2) If a general loses a battle, they do not inflict punishment, but present him with woman's clothes, and so he is driven to seek death for himself. The country provides for a band of champions to the number of several hundred. Each time they are about to engage in conflict they intoxicate themselves with wine, and then one man with lance in hand will meet ten thousand and challenge them in fight. If one of these champions meets a man and kills him, the laws of the country do not punish him. Every time they go forth, they beat drums before them. Moreover, they inebriate many hundred heads of elephants, and taking them out to fight, they themselves first drink their wine, and then rushing forward in mass, they trample everything down, so that no enemy can stand before them. The king, in consequence of his possessing these men and elephants, treats his neighbours with contempt. He is of the Kshattriya caste, and his name is Pulakêśi (Pu-lo-ki-she). His plans and undertakings are wide-spread, and his beneficent actions are felt over a great distance. His subjects obey him with perfect submission. At the present time Silâditya Mahârâja³ has conquered the nations from east to west, and carried his arms to remote districts, but the people of this country alone have not submitted to him. - [Previous: c8.s12.161.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.161.1) - [Next: c8.s12.161.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.161.3) - [Up: c8.s12.161](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.161) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.161.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.161.2) · Pramāṇa