The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.150

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¹ In addition to those enumerated here, I am much inclined to include No. 24 in Mr. Rice's *Inscriptions at Sravana-Belgola*, which gives us the name of the *Mahâmahâ-sâmantâdhipati* Raṇâvalôka-Kambaiya (I quote the correct *biruda* from an ink-impression received from Dr. Hultzsch), son of the *Paramêśvara* and *Mahârâja* Śrîvallabha. The characters of the record allow very well of its being referred to the time of Gôvinda III. The title *Mahârâja* is rather peculiar for his period; but the other title *Paramêśvara* proves that the *Śrîvallabha* of the record was a paramount sovereign. The authentic existence of any other sovereign with that *biruda*, in the same period, has not been established. And the biruda Raṇâvalôka is curiously analogous to Khaḍgâvalôka, the *biruda* of Dantidurga. The exceptional title *Mahâmahâsâmantâdhipati*, and the regal expression *prithivî-râjyaṃ-geyyē*, 'reigning over the earth,' indicate someone superior to any *Mahâsâmantâdhipati*; and they might well be applied to a king's son, who, though not appointed *Yuvarâja*, was nevertheless entrusted with high and extensive authority, and may have been a younger brother of the chosen successor of Gôvinda III. I refrain, however, from at once deciding the point as I feel inclined, and entering Kambaiya now in the table as another son of Gôvinda III.