The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.205

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(I) One is the Kaira grant of Vijayarâja or Vijayavarmarâja,² which, by disclosing the existence of a feudatory branch of the Chalukya family in Gujarât,—or, speaking more strictly, in the Lâṭa division of the Koṅkaṇ,—furnishes corroboration of the statement of the Aihole inscription that Pulikêśin II. subdued the Lâṭas and the Gurjaras, and shews that he recovered, up to the river Kim at any rate, the northern provinces of the kingdom that had been put together by his predecessor. The genealogy given in this record commences with a Chalukya prince named Jayasiṁharâja; his son was the Râja Buddhavarman, "he whose armour is Buddha," to whose name are attached the epithet vallabha and the biruda Raṇavikrânta; and the latter's son was Vijayarâja, "the king of victory," or, as he is styled in the cancelled grant, the Râja Vijayavarman, "he whose armour is victory." The charter was issued from his camp at a town named Vijayapura; and it records a grant of the village of Pariyaya, on the east of Sandhiyara, in the Kâśâkûla vishaya, to the priests and religious students of Jambûsara. Vijayapura has not been identified.³ But, as pointed out by Dr. Bühler,⁴ Pariyaya is the modern Pariyâ, in the Ôlpaḍ tâluka, Surat District; Sandhiyara is the modern Sandhier, a few miles to the west of Pariyâ; the Kâśâkûla or Kâśakûla vishaya, which is mentioned again in the grant, dated in A.D. 757, of the Râshṭrakûṭa Kakkarâja II. of Gujarât, was evidently the country on the northern bank of the Tapti; and Jambûsara is, of course, Jambûsar, the head-quarters of the tâluka of the same name in the Broach District.⁵ The charter is dated on the full-