The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.116

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³ An inscription at Mulgund in the Dhârwâr District (Carn.-Désa Inscrs. Vol. I. p. 125; verified by an ink-impression). The record speaks of him as the son of Sômêśvara I.; and it styles him samadhigata-panchamahâśabda-mahâmandalêśvara, Veṅgi-puravar-êśvara (Sir Walter Elliot's copyist has given Bhôjtpura), kumâra-mârtanda, Ayyana-gandhavârana, Ayyana-malla, and Châlukya-chûḍâmani.—From this and the two records mentioned in the following two notes, one might easily infer, and originally I did make such an inference,—that Sômêśvara II. was the son of a princess of the Eastern Chalukya family, Vikramâditya VI. the son of a Ganga princess, and Jayasimha III. the son of a Pallava princess. But the Gadag inscriptions say distinctly that they were uterine brothers, born of one and the same mother (page 438 above, note 1). Bilhaṇa's account is to the same purport. And the attribution of particular titles in each instance is to be explained by the territorial administration which each of the brothers held. The fact, however, that, not only are Pallava titles given to Jayasimha III., but also he is distinctly described as mahâ-Pallava-anvaya, "belonging to the great Pallava lineage" (see the next note but one), suggests that Bâchaladêvî was of the Pallava family.