[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.s12.225 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.225 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.225 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s12.225](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.225) kings in battle in country after country, he acquired the fortune and sovereignty of his ancestors.¹ The reference to three kings here is explained by the Haidarâbâd grant, which tells us that he rubbed out the fame of Narasimha (i.e. the Pallava king Narasimhavarman I.), destroyed the power of Mahêndra (i.e. Mahêndravarman II.), and surpassed Îśvara (i.e. Paramêśvaravarman I.) in statesmanship, and thus bruised or crushed the Pallavas, and that, "conquering Îśvarapôtarâja (i.e., again, Paramêśvaravarman I.), he took Kâñchî, whose huge walls were insurmountable and hard to be broken, which was surrounded by a large moat that was unfathomable and hard to be crossed, and which resembled the girdle (kâñchî) of the southern region."² And from this we learn that the Chalukya sovereignty remained in abeyance during the remainder of the reign of Narasimhavarman I., under whom the Pallavas took and devastated Bâdâmi,³ the whole of the time of Mahêndravarman II., and the first part of the reign of Paramêśvaravarman I., and that it was by overthrowing Paramêśvaravarman I., that Vikramâditya I. recovered the kingdom. His success can only have been achieved after a protracted struggle, commenced probably a long time before the period to which the records point for the formal beginning of his reign. And it would appear that he was not at once, or at all easily, victorious; for, the Pallava records represent Paramêśvaravarman I. as defeating him in battle at a place named Peruvaḷanallûr,—saying that Paramêśvaravarman, unaided, made Vikramâditya, whose army consisted of several hundreds of thousands, take to flight, covered only by a rag; and they even claim that Paramêśvaravarman destroyed his city; i.e. Bâdâmi. Subsequent records describe Vikramâditya I. as receiving, by surrender, the town of Kâñchî, after defeating the lord of the Pallavas who had been the cause of the humiliation and destruction of his family,—as humbling the pride of the three kings of Chôḷa, Pâṇḍya, and Kêraḷa,—as having obeisance done to him by the lord of Kâñchî, who had bowed down to none other,—and as thus becoming the lord of the whole earth included within the three oceans.⁴ Others add the Kaḷabhras to the list of kings whose pride he humbled.⁵ And they shew that he was greatly assisted by his son and grandson: of the former, Vinayâditya, it is said that, at the command of his father, he arrested the excessively exalted power of the three kings of Chôḷa, Pâṇḍya, and Kêraḷa, and of the Pallavas, and thus gratified his father's mind by bringing all the provinces into a state of quiet;⁶ and of the latter, Vijayâditya, it is said - [Previous: c8.s12.224](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.224) - [Next: c8.s12.226](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.226) - [Up: c8.s12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.225](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.225) · Pramāṇa