The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.82

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events which occurred at the time when the Râshtrakûṭa sovereignty was passing into the hands of the later Châlukyas of Kalyâṇi.¹ Jayasiṁha I. and Raṇarâga may very possibly have held some military or executive office under the Kadamba kings of Banawâsi; such a position would have paved the way to the step by which Pulikêśin I. acquired Bâdâmi and established his independence. But it seems clear that neither of them enjoyed any semblance of sovereign power.² And it may be that their names were simply taken, to be placed at the head of the genealogy, from some grant of Pulikêśin I. drawn up in accordance with the directions of the Sanskrit law-books, which prescribe that the genealogical part of a grant should give the names of at least three generations.³