The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.410

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here, Gujjiga or Gojjiga must be the Râshtrakûṭa king Suvarṇavarsha-Gôvinda IV., who was reigning in A. D. 930 and 933, and whose name actually appears in the form of Gojjigadêva; Vijayâditya is doubtless the Eastern Chalukya king Kollabigaṇḍa-Vijayâditya IV., for whom we have the date of A. D. 918; Erapa may possibly be the Western Gaṅga king Ereyappa, who has been mentioned just above in connection with Ayyapadêva-Ayyaṇa I.; Bhîma may be the Eastern Chalukya Bhîma I., in the period A. D. 888 to 918; and, judging by the generations, Nirupamadêva may be identified with the Râshtrakûṭa king Kalivallabha-Nirupama-Dhârâvarsha-Dhruva, just before A. D. 804; and these identifications may be taken as establishing the general correctness of the genealogy given by Pampa. Also, as Pampa specifically states that he wrote in the "pithy Kanarese" of Puligere, which is Lakshmêshwar, the village of Dharmaüra may be safely identified with the neighbouring Ḍambal, in the Dhârwâr District, the name of which appears in an inscription of A. D. 1095-96 as Dharmâpura and Dharmavolal; ¹ and this, though the name of the Bachche thousand is not otherwise known, locates the authority of Arikêsarin II. But, to what place in the Chalukya genealogy Yuddhamalla I., the founder of this line, may be referred, is not apparent. On the one hand, the fact that Pampa was born in a family that was settled at the town of Veṅgî in the Veṅgî maṇḍala, may be taken as indicating that Yuddhamalla I. was of the eastern branch of the family; but the name of Yuddhamalla does not occur in the eastern genealogy until just before A. D. 925. And on the other hand, if the locality of the government of Arikêsarin II. is held to connect him with the western branch, there is a similar difficulty: the name of Yuddhamalla is, indeed, substituted for that of Satyâśraya-Vinayâditya in the Kauthêm grant; but there is no contemporaneous authority for connecting the name with him, even as a biruda; and under any circumstances, his date, A. D. 680 to 696, appears altogether too early, even if regard is paid only to the generations, and is unquestionably so, if the identification of Nirupamadêva with Kalivallabha-Nirupama-Dhârâvarsha-Dhruva is accepted. Therefore, while Pampa's statements may be accepted, in respect of the names and lineage, we are unable to fit this line of princes into either the Western or the Eastern Chalukya genealogy.