The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.11

c8.s14.11

Taila II., then, overthrew the Râshtrakûṭas,—established the Western Châlukya dynasty,—and reigned for twenty-four years, commencing with the *Śrīmukha saṁvatsara*, *Śaka-Saṁvat* 896 current = A. D. 973-74. His name appears also as Tailapa, Tailapayya, Tailappa, and Nûrmaḍi-Taila; and he had the *biruda* of Âhavamalla, "the wrestler in war." His regal titles were *Mahârâjâdhirâja*, *Paramêśvara*, and *Paramabhaṭṭâraka*; and he had the epithets of *samastabhuvanâśraya*, *śrīprithivīvallabha*, *Satyâśraya-kula-tilaka* or "forehead-ornament or glory of the family of Satyâśraya," and *Châluky-âbharaṇa* or "ornament of the Châlukyas:" and this string of epithets and titles was uniformly used, with occasional additions, by all his successors. The Sogal inscription also styles him *Bhujabala-Chakravartin*, "the powerful emperor," or "an universal emperor by the strength of his arm." His wife was Jâkavve or Jakkaladêvī, daughter of a Râshtrakûṭa named Bhammaha.¹ Only four records of his time, distinctly naming him as the reigning sovereign, are as yet known: they are,—an inscription at Sogal in the Belgaum District,² dated in the month Âshâḍha (June-July), falling in A. D. 980, of the Vikrama *saṁvatsara*, *Śaka-Saṁvat* 902 (expired), which mentions his feudatory Kârtavīrya I., of the family of the Raṭṭas of Saundatti, as the lord of the Kuṇḍi country; an inscription at Saundatti in the same district,³ dated six months later in the same year, which mentions another feudatory, the *Mahâsâmanta* Sântivarman; of the same family, who was ruling at Saundatti;⁴ an inscription