The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.6

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of Bellâry and Karnûl. And the latter, in addition to some further successes in the Konkan, conquered, towards the north, the Kalachuri king Buddha, and, by doing so, acquired the northern parts of the Bombay Presidency, certainly up to the river Kîm, and perhaps as far as the Mahî. At that point, the progress of Mangalêsa was stopped by the rulers of Valabhî, who held Kâthiâwâd and the northern parts of Gujarât,—the then representative of the family, whether as a paramount sovereign, or as the local governor for some king of Northern India, being evidently Sîlâditya I., for whom we have the date of Gupta-Samvat 286 (current), = A. D. 605-606.¹ But there was thus constituted a kingdom which embraced the whole of the Bombay Presidency, excepting Kâthiâwâd and northern Gujarât,—where the kings of Valabhî continued to reign till about A. D. 766,—and, with additions made to it by Pulikêsin II., included also much of the neighbouring territory to the east and south. And, except for a serious reverse, coupled with a suspension of their sovereignty for some thirteen years, which they suffered at the hands of the Pallavas at the end of the reign of Pulikêsin II., the Western Chalukyas of Bâdâmi held this kingdom until a little more than half-way through the eighth century. They were then completely overwhelmed by the Râshtrakûtas; and the family remained in obscurity for over two hundred years. The dynasty was then restored, or, more probably, a side-branch of the same stock was brought into power, by Taila II., in A. D. 973. His successors held the sovereignty for over two centuries more. And then the power of the family finally sank and disappeared. We are dealing now with the earlier of the two periods indicated above.