The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.234

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That all this was accomplished before at any rate A. D. 671, is shewn by the Nausârî grant of Śryâśraya-Śilâditya,² which, dated in January of that year, mentions Vikramâditya I. as having overcome the Pallavas with unrepulsed prowess. But the conquest of the hostile kings in country after country, with the recovery of his ancestral fortune and sovereignty, is mentioned in the charters of Chandrâditya, one of which, dated on the 23rd September A. D. 659, and in the fifth regnal year, indicates,—whether the year be that of Chandrâditya or of Vikramâditya I.,—that the restoration of the sovereignty had been effected before the same date in A. D. 655. On the other side, from the Bagumrâ grant of the Sêndraka prince Prithivîvallabha-Nikumbhallaśakti, we have found reasons for inferring that it was not effected till after the 8th August, immediately preceding. And we shall, therefore, probably be very close to the mark, if we place the formal commencement of his reign somewhere in the autumn of that same year, A. D. 655. This gives about thirteen years for the interval which followed the downfall of Pulikêśin II.; and about twenty-five years for the duration of the reign of Vikramâditya I. And the localities covered by the records of his time in which places are mentioned that can be identified,—Nausârî in the Barôda State, Kochrêm in the Ratnâgiri District, and Ratnâgiri in the southernmost parts of the Bellâry District,—suffice to shew that he really did recover the whole of the Western Chalukya dominions.