The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.159

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times as Vikramârka, sometimes as Vikrâmânka or simply Vikrama, sometimes as Kali-Vikrama,¹ and, in the Eastern Châlukya records, as Vikkala² and Vikkila;³ he also had the appellation of Perma, Permâdi; or Permanadi, which in Sanskrit records occasionally appears in the form of Paramardi. And the events described just above must have occurred towards the end of A. D. 1076. For, on the one hand, we have a date in the reign of Sômêsvara II. that falls in August-September, A. D. 1076, and none after that time. And, on the other hand, the epigraphic records of the time of Vikramâditya VI. shew that the year A. D. 1076-77, the Anala or Nala samvatsara, Saka-Samvat 990 current, commencing with Chaitra sukla 1, which corresponded, approximately, to the 9th March, A. D. 1076, was reckoned as the first year of his reign.⁴ That Vikramâditya VI. was actually reigning at the commencement of this Saka year, does not necessarily follow. But an inscription at Wadageri, in the Nizâm's Dominions,⁵ records grants that were made towards the close of the same year, on Phâlguna sukla 5, corresponding to the 31st January, A. D. 1077,⁶ on account of the festival of the pattabandha or coronation. This shews that he was crowned at least before the end of the year in question, A. D. 1076-77. But, whether the record fixes the coronation day, or an anniversary of it, or whether it simply registers grants that were made when the news of the coronation reached the locality, is not clear. It may be added that this record also says that Vikramâditya VI. was then reigning, not at Kalyâna, but at Nadaviyuppayana-vīḍu, which probably has to be located somewhere in the Wadageri. When once on the throne, he had a long and uninterrupted reign of at least fifty years, extending to at any rate some date in A. D. 1126. There are several records of his fiftieth year, the Visvâvasu samvatsara, which was Saka-Samvat 1048 current, = A. D. 1125-26. The latest of them⁷ registers grants that were made on Mâgha śukla 7, corresponding to the 3rd January, A. D. 1126. And this is the latest date, at present known, that is fairly referable to his reign. It is of course possible that his reign may have run on into the Parâbhava saṁvatsara, A. D. 1126-27, which would be his fifty-first year, and was the first year of his successor. But, as we have already seen, he is mentioned in A. D. 1055-56, as governing the Gaṅgavâḍi ninety-six-thousand and the Banavâsi twelve-thousand under his father. Even if he was then but a mere child, governing only nominally, he must have been at least seventy years old in A.D. 1126. And it seems highly unlikely that he was alive much longer after the date in January of that year, noted just above.¹