The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.220

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(6) A stone inscription at Sirûr in the Dhârwâr District,⁴ which records that, in the fifty-second year of the reign of Amôghavarsha and in the Vyaya saṁvatsara, ‘Śaka-Saṁvat 788 (expired), an officer of his, named Dêvaṇayya, who was governing the Belvola three-hundred at Aṇṇigere, made a grant, or remitted a tax, on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun on Sunday, the new-moon-day of the month Jyaishṭha. Here, the corresponding English date is Sunday, 16th June, A. D. 866; on which day there was a total eclipse of the sun, which was visible right across India.⁵