The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.15

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⁴ I use three terms,—'reign,' in the case of paramount sovereigns; 'rule,' in the case of some of the leading feudatory nobles; and 'govern,' in the case of ordinary officials and feudatory nobles of less prominence,—intentionally, with the object of representing, as closely as possible, certain gradations of rank and authority which are plainly indicated by the different expressions used in the records themselves.—The earliest technical expression for paramount sovereignty appears to have been *prithivī-râjyam-geyu*, "to reign over the (whole) earth," which occurs, for instance, in the Balagâmve inscription of the Western Chalukya king Vinayâditya (*Ind. Ant.* Vol. XIX. p. 144, text lines 1, 2). It was eventually superseded by *vijaya-râjyam uttar-ôttar-âbhivriddhi-pravardhamânam â-chand-ârka-târam baram sale*, or *saluttam-ire*, "the victorious reign, augmenting with perpetual increase, being current so as to endure as long as the moon and sun and stars may last," which (after some rudimentary attempts, illustrated in *Ind. Ant.* Vol. XII. p. 219, text lines 14, 15, p. 221, text line 1, and p. 256, text lines 6, 7) appears in the Hatti-Mattûr inscription of the Râshtrakûṭa king Indra III. (*ibid.* p. 224, text lines 2, 3).—The technical term for purely subordinate government was *âḷu*, "to govern," which sometimes appears alone (*e. g.*, in connection with the government of the Sêndraka *Mahârâja* Pogilli under Vinayâditya, in lines 4, 5 of the Balagâmve inscription mentioned above), but is often amplified into *duṣṭa-nigraha-viśiṣṭa-pratipâlanaṁ âḷu*, "to govern with punishment of the wicked and