The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.404

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To some time in this period belongs the inscription from Koṭûr, in the Belgaum District,² which records how a Saiva ascetic named Sambhu voluntarily entered the fire and burned himself to death, as the means of attaining paradise; it mentions a Chalukya prince, with the name or biruda of Parahitarâja, who was doubtless one of the Chalukya chieftains who must have survived, and would probably be entrusted with subordinate authority, during the period of the Râshṭrakûṭa supremacy. If the Kaḍab grant, which purports to be dated in A. D. 813, may be accepted, there was at that time, in Mysore, a Chalukya prince named Vimalâditya, governor of the Kunungil dêśa, a son of Yaśôvarmman, who was the son of Balavarman.³ An inscription at Varuṇa, in Mysore,⁴ seems to mention a Châlukya Mahâsâmanta named Narasimha, and his wife Gâvilabbarasi. Other records at the same place⁵ mention a Châlukya Mahâsâmanta Goggi or Gugga, with the boar-crest; and one of them commemorates the death of a follower of his in a battle between some persons named Polukêsi and Bûḍiga. And finally, the Kanarese poet Pampa, the author of the Vikramârjunavijaya or Pampa-Bhârata, who was born in A. D. 902-903, mentions as his patron, in A. D. 941-42, a Chalukya prince named Arikêsarin II., to whom he allots the following descent;—(1) Yuddhamalla I., of the Chalukya race, who ruled over the Sapâdalaksha or lâkh-and-a-quarter country; (2) his son, Arikêsarin I., who, with the ministers of the ‘Bangerishaya’ (? Veṅgî vishaya); penetrated into the kingdom of a certain Nirupamadêva; (3) his son, Narasimhabhadradêva; (4) his son, Dugdhamalla; (5) his son, Baddiga, who acquired the biruda of Sôladagaṇḍa, “the undefeated hero,” and, “as if seizing a crocodile, entered into the water and proudly seized Bhîma;” (6) his son, Yuddhamalla II.; (7) his son, Narasimha, whose preceptor, was the Muni Subhadra; and who gave a province to Erapa, subdued the chiefs of the Seven Mâlala (?), plucked the goddess of victory from the arms of Ghûrjararâja (sic), defeated a king named Mahipâla, and bathed his horses at the junction of the Ganges; and (8) the poet’s patron, Arikêsarin II., the son of this Yuddhamalla and his wife Chandrânanâ: his territory is called the Jôla country, i. e. “the land of the great millet;” and he, is described as protecting a certain Vijayâditya, who took refuge with him, against a king named Gujjiga or Gojjiga, and as presenting Pampa, as a reward for writing the Vikramârjunavijaya, — for the hero of which poem Arikêsarin II. himself was taken,—with the village of Dharmaüra in the Bachche thousand.⁶ As regards the extraneous persons whose names are mentioned