[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.s13.55 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.55 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.55 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s13.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.55) kûṭa; in fact, except in the biruda Raṭṭa-Kandarpa; applied to Gôvinda IV. and Khoṭṭiga,¹ the only citable instances in their own records, in which the form Raṭṭa is used, are in the Sirûr inscription, where Amôghavarsha I. is described as "born in the Raṭṭa vamśa or race;"² in the Nausârî grants of Indra III., of A. D. 915, which speak of Amôghavarsha I. as "raising again the glory of the Raṭṭas, which had been drowned in the Chalukya ocean;"³ and in the Dêôlî grant, which places an eponymous person named Raṭṭa⁴ at the head of the genealogy, and uses the same word in one or two other places. They had the pâlidhvaja-banner, and also the ókakétu or (?) bird-ensign, the Garuḍa-lâñchhana or crest of Garuḍa, the servant and carrier of Vishṇu, and the hereditary title of "supreme lord of the town of Lattalûra;" they were heralded in public by the musical instrument called ṭivili;⁵ from a verse which stands at the beginning of some of the records,⁶ they seem to have worshipped both Vishṇu and Śiva as family-gods; the images or emblems of the rivers Gaṅgâ and Yamunâ appear to have been among their insignia,⁷ having been probably acquired by them, with the pâlidhvaja-banner, from the Western Chalukyas of Bâdâmi, who had obtained them by conquering some king of Northern India; and their kingdom came to be known as Raṭṭapâṭi, "the country of the Raṭṭas," and as "the Raṭṭapâḍi seven-and-a-half-lâkh country."⁸ As regards the Garuḍa-crest, which ought to appear on the seals of all their copper-plate charters,—as is now shewn by the better preserved seal of the Paithan grant of Gôvinda III., of A. D. 794,⁹ it is met with there, and on the seals of the Sâmângad grant of Dantidurga of A. D. 754, the Kanarese grant of Gôvinda III. of A. D. 804, the Waṇi grant of the same king of A. D. 807, and the Barôda grant of Suvarṇavarsha-Karkarâja of Gujarât, of A. D. 811 or 812;¹⁰ but the seal of the Kardâ grant of Kakka II., of A. D. 972, bears, instead, an elaborate representative of the god Śiva.¹¹ - [Previous: c8.s13.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.54) - [Next: c8.s13.56](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.56) - [Up: c8.s13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.55) · Pramāṇa