The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.86

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The son of Raṇarâga, — called, in the Mahâkûṭa pillar inscription, his "dear or favourite son,"⁴ — was Pulikêśin I., whose initial date, reckoning from the known commencement of his successor's reign, may be fixed pretty closely in A.D. 550. His name occurs in the various forms of Polekêśin, Polikêśin, Pulikêśin, and Pulakêśin.⁵ He had the birudas of Satyâśraya, "the asylum of truth," and Raṇavikrama, "the valorous in war." The Mahâkûṭa pillar inscription, and the Karṇûl grant of Âdityavarman, give him the epithet of śrî-prithivîvallabha, "favourite of fortune and the earth :"⁶ but, in the