The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.299

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Vinayaditya was succeeded, in A. D. 696,⁵ by his son Vijayaditya, "the sun of victory," who is styled, both in his own records and in the subsequent ones, the "dear or favourite son" of his father. In the Pattadakal inscription of the time of Kirtivarman II., his name also appears in the form of Vijayadityadeva, "his majesty, the sun of victory." He had the usual biruda of Satyasraya, and also that of Samastabhuvanasraya, "asylum of the universe," and the customary epithet of sriprithivivallabha; and he used the titles of Maharajadhiraja and Paramesvara, with generally Bhattarak or Bhatara according to the language of the record; but in one instance Paramabhattararaka, "the most worshipful one."¹ It seems that, while his grandfather was engaged in reducing the southern countries, he himself was employed in maintaining peace and order in the home provinces. By A.D. 692, in his father's time, as we have already seen, he had been appointed Yuvarâja. He assisted his father in a campaign to the north, and, pushing on further to the north even than his father, there acquired for him the signs of the rivers Gaṅgâ and Yamunâ. On one occasion, he was led into an ambush and taken prisoner by his enemies; but even then he contrived to tranquillise anarchical disturbances in his own territory, and, without any assistance, to escape and establish his power over the whole of his own dominions. He built the great temple of the god Śiva under the name of Vijayêśvara, now known as Saṅgamêśvara, at Paṭṭadakal.² And he is perhaps mentioned, with a younger sister named Kuṅkumamahâdêvî, in an inscription of the eleventh century A.D. at Guḍigêre, which states that Kuṅkumamahâdêvî built the Jain temple called Anesejjeya-basadi at Lakshmêśhwar.³ One of his records may be of considerable literary interest, in mentioning, with details which would place him just before A. D. 730, a Jain teacher named Pûjyapâda, who may possibly be the celebrated author of the Jainêndra-grammar.⁴