The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.81

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The earliest authentic names in the Western Chalukya family are those of Jayasimha I., and his son Ranarâga, whose designations mean, respectively, "the lion of victory," and "he who delights in war." We have no records of the time of either of them. And, among the genuine records of the early period, they are mentioned only in the Mahâkûta pillar inscription of Mangalêsa and the Aihole inscription of the time of Pulikêsin II.; in the former the epithet of vallabhêndra, "the lord or chief of favourites," and in the latter the simple epithet of vallabha, "the favourite," is attached to the name of Jayasimha. According to a statement made in the Kauthêm grant of A. D. 1009, Jayasimha I. re-established the Chalukya power after a period of obscuration, and did so by conquering a Râshtrakûta king named Indra, son of Krishna, who had an army of eight hundred elephants. But the records of the period with which we are dealing, contain no allusion to any such event, and do not attribute any specific victories, or any historical acts at all, either to Jayasimha I. or to Ranarâga; and the statement in the Kauthêm grant is explained by