The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.329

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From Gôvinda IV., the sovereignty passed to his paternal uncle Vaddiga, the son of Jagattuṅga II. by his second wife Gôvindâmbâ. We have as yet no records that can with certainty be allotted to his time.² But, that he actually did reign, is proved, partly by the explicit statement of the Dêôlî grant, that, at the request of the feudatory chiefs, he ascended the throne in order to maintain the greatness of the sovereignty of the Raṭṭas,³ and partly by the manner in which the same record couples with his *biruda* of Amôghavarsha the titles of *Mahârâjâdhirâja*, *Paramêśvara*, and *Paramabhaṭṭâraka*, and describes Krishna III. as meditating at his feet; so, also, the Âtakûr inscription of A. D. 949-50 couples with his *biruda* two of the above paramount titles and the epithet of *śrîprithivîvallabha*, and describes Krishna III. as a bee at the water-lilies that were his feet. He is spoken of by only his *biruda* of Amôghavarsha in the above two records, in the Śâlôṭgi inscription of A. D. 945, and in the Kardâ grant of A. D. 972; his proper name appears, in Prâkṛit forms, as Vaddiga in the Khârêpâṭan grant, and as Baddega in records from the Kanarese country.⁴ The Kardâ grant tells us that his wife was Kundakadêvî, a daughter of Yuvarâja,⁵ who may safely be identified, as was done by General Sir Alexander Cunningham, with Yuvarâja I. of the Kalachuri dynasty of Tripura.⁶ From the Hebbâḷ inscription,⁷ we learn that a daughter of his was married to the Western Gaṅga prince Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-Permanadi-Bûtuga, who received, as her dowry, the districts known as the Puligere or Purigere three-hundred, the Beḷvola three-hundred, the Kisukâḍ seventy, and the Bâge, Bâge-nâḍ, or Bâgaḍage seventy.