The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.135

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Sômêsvara I. was thus succeeded by his eldest son Sômêsvara II., who had the biruda of Bhuvanaikamalla, "the sole wrestler in the world." We have already seen that in A. D. 1053, during his father's time, he was governing the Belvola three-hundred and the Purigere three-hundred. Of his own reign, which was apparently uneventful, except for internal dissensions, we have some twenty records,⁴ which give dates ranging from the month Sravana, (July-Aug.), falling in A. D. 1069, of the Saumya samvatsara, Saka-Samvat 991 (expired),⁵ to the month Bhâdrapada (Aug.-Sept.) falling in