[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s13.2 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.2 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.2) So far, we have seen that, beginning, about A. D. 550, with the acquisition of the country round Bâdâmi in the Bijâpur District, by the end of the sixth century the Western Chalukyas had created a kingdom which embraced nearly the whole of the Bombay Presidency, —up to the river Kîm, certainly, and possibly up to the Mahî,—with a large extent of adjacent territory to the east and south; and that, save for a short interruption of their sovereignty by the Pallavas of Kâñchî from A. D. 642 to 655 or thereabouts, they held the supremacy over the dominions which they thus put together, until about A. D. 757. Their sway then ceased; the sovereignty being wrested from them by the Râṣṭrakūṭas. In the north, the Lâṭa country, with part of the Gurjara territory, was taken by a branch of Râṣṭrakūṭa family which had but a short career; and in which the last known name is that of Kakkarâja II.: at some point, however, north of the Narmadâ, —probably at a line which ran through the southern point of the Pañch-Mahâls District straight to the Mahî on the west and to Chhoṭâ-Udepur on the east,—the Râṣṭrakūṭas must, for the time being, have been kept back by the kings of Valabhî; for, a record of A. D. 766¹ shews that the territory which was known as the Kheṭaka \*dhâra\* or Kheṭakâhâra \*vishaya\*, the modern Kaira District, with the Cambay State and some outlying parts of the Gaikwâr's dominions,—named after Kheṭaka, the ancient form of the name of Kaira itself,—was still a portion of the Valabhî kingdom, and a record of A. D. 760² places the country round Gôdhrâ in the Pañch-Mahâls in the dominions of Śilâditya VI. of Valabhî. From the central and southern parts of their dominions, the Western Chalukyas were ejected in the first instance by Dantidurga,—the conquest being completed by his uncle Kṛiṣhṇa I.,—who belonged to a more powerful branch of the Râṣṭrakūṭa family, which eventually selected Mâlkheḍ in the Nizâm's Dominions as its capital, and retained the sovereignty till A. D. 973. The territory of the Mâlkheḍ line was at first bounded on the north, towards the coast, by the southern limit of the Lâṭa country, where the other branch of the family was then reigning. Shortly after A. D. 783-84, however, Gôvinda III. took that province from his relatives, and made it a part of his own kingdom, in charge of his brother Indrarâja; and the Mâlkheḍ dominions were thus extended up to the southern limit of the Gôdhrâ province of Valabhî. Somewhere about the end of the eighth century A. D., the Valabhî dynasty came to an end.³ And the - [Previous: c8.s13.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.1) - [Next: c8.s13.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.3) - [Up: c8.s13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.2) · Pramāṇa