The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.113

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to quell some local disturbance; and in A.D. 1050 she was still governing the Kisukâḍ seventy, with also the Toragare six and the Mâsavâḍi hundred-and-forty. In A. D. 1053-54, his wife Mailaladêvî was holding the government of the Banavâsi twelve-thousand.¹ In the Honwâḍ inscription of A.D. 1054, his wife Kêtaladêvî is described as governing or managing the Ponnavâḍa agrahâra, i.e. Honwâḍ in the Bijâpur District, according to the tribhôg-abhyantara-siddhi, which means that she took one-third of the revenues, the other two-thirds going, in equal shares, to the gods and the Brâhmans.² In A. D. 1053, his eldest son Sômêśvara II. was ruling the Belvola three-hundred and the Purigere three-hundred.³ In A. D. 1055-56, his second son Vikramâditya VI. was ruling the Gangavâḍi ninety-six-thousand and the Banavâsi twelve-thousand, with Harikêsarin, of the family of the Kâdambas of Hângal, as his subordinate in charge of the latter district.⁴ In A.D. 1064, his third son Jayasimha III. was ruling the Tardavâḍi thousand, which was the territory lying round Bijâpur.⁵ And, in A. D. 1064 and 1066, his fourth son Vishnuvardhana-Vijayâditya was ruling the Nolambavâḍi thirty-two-thousand. It was in this reign that Kalyâna or Kalyânapura, which is the modern Kalyâni in the Nizâm's Dominions, became the capital of the Western Châlukyas. Bilhaṇa distinctly tells us, in his Vikramânkadêvacharita, that Sômêśvara I. made the town, i.e. either founded it or developed it into the capital.⁷ And, in perfect accordance with this, is the fact that the very earliest epigraphic mention of the place that has been traced, is in a record of A.D. 1053,⁸ which speaks of it as the nelevîḍu or "fixed place of abode," i.e. "capital," of this king.¹ The war with the Chôlas, now under Kô-Parakêsarivarman-Râjêndradêva, continued in this reign. The Chôla records represent Râjêndradêva as conquering Sômêsvara I., at a place named Koppam, on the bank of the Perâru river, which is Koppa on the river Tunga, in the Kadûr District, Mysore.² But, on the other hand, a Western Châlukya inscription of A. D. 1071, at Annigere in the Dhârwâr District,³ though admitting that the "wicked" Chôla, who had abandoned the religious observances of his family, penetrated into the Belvola country and burned the Jain temples which Ganga-Permâdi, the lord of the Ganga mandala,⁴ while governing the Belvola province, had built in the Annigere nad, states that the Chôla eventually yielded his head to Sômêsvara I. in battle, and thus, losing his life, broke the succession of his family.⁵ And the date of the Châlukya victory is fixed, shortly before the 20th January, A. D. 1060, by an inscription at Sûdi in the Dhârwâr District, which records that Sômêsvara I. granted a village named Sivunûr, in the Kisukâd seventy, to Nâgêsvarapandita and Sômêsvarapandita of the temple of Nâgêsvara at Sûdi, on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon on Monday, the full-moon day of the month Mâgha of the Vikârin samvatsara, Saka-Samvat 981 (expired), when, on his return from a conquest of the southern countries and of the Chôla, he was at Puliyappayavâidu in the Sindavâdi nad.⁶ The war with the Chôlas was duly chronicled by Bilhana, who claims that Sômêsvara I. penetrated as far as Kânchî, which was then the Chôla capital, and stormed that town and drove the ruler of it into the jungles.⁷ Bilhana asserts also that Sômêsvara I. stormed Dhârâ, the capital of the Paramâras in Mâlwa, from which king Bhôja was driven out by him; and that he utterly destroyed the power of Karna, the Kalachuri king of Dâhala. As regards the events of the latter part of this reign, according to both the epigraphic records and the Vikramânkadêvacharita, Sômêsvara I. had three sons, — Sômêsvara II., Vikramâditya VI., and Jayasimha III.. And the poem tells us⁸ that,