The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.402

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As will be seen in chapter VIII. below, the Râshṭrakûṭas of Mâlkhêḍ left an impress of their dominion in the Kanarese districts, which long survived themselves, in the Raṭṭa chieftains of Saundatti. And a few other names are forthcoming which shew that, though the Mâlkhêḍ dynasty was overthrown, the family or tribe, or other branches of it, continued to exist and did not fall altogether into obscurity. Taila II. himself married Jâkavve or Jâkaladêvî, a daughter of king Bhammaha, the Raṭṭa, the ornament of the family of the Râshṭrakûṭas.² An inscription of the time of the Western Châlukya king Vikramâditya VI., dated in A. D. 1087-88, at Sîtâbalḍî in the Central Provinces,³ mentions, as his feudatory, the *Mahâsâmanta* Dhâḍîbhaḍaka or Dhâḍîbhaṇḍaka, who was born in the "great" Râshṭrakûṭa family, and had emigrated from the town of Latalaura. And the name of the Râshṭrakûṭa *Mahâsâmantâdhipati* Golhaṇadêva, a feudatory of the Kalachuri king Gayâkarṇa, is mentioned in an inscription at Baburîband in the Jabalpur District, Central Provinces, which belongs to about the first quarter of the twelfth century A. D.⁴ Also, there are two earlier references which cannot at present be allocated in detail. From the syllables *śrî-râshṭra*, which are extant in line 5, it seems likely that there was a notice of the Râshṭrakûṭa family in the same part of the country, to be referred to about the eighth or ninth century A. D., in one of the inscriptions of Śivagupta, son of Harshagupta, at Sirpur in the Râypur District.⁵ And the *Mahâsâmanta* Bhillama II., of the Yâdava family of Sêuṇadêśa, whose date was about A. D. 1000, married Lasthiyavvâ or Lakshmî, the daughter of a Râshṭrakûṭa named Thaṇjha, who probably belonged to some northern "offshoot of the Râshṭrakûṭa stock, perhaps in Central India.⁶