The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.173

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The records of this long reign are very numerous: Sir Walter Elliot's Collection contains about one hundred and fifty; and hardly any village of importance, containing epigraphic remains, has been visited, without at least one or two others coming to notice.¹ They give the names of no fewer than six wives, ²—Sâvaladêvî, daughter of the Mahâ-mandalêśvara Jôgamarasa or Jôgamarâa, of the Sûryavamśa, who is spoken of as the lord of the Darikâdu nâd and the Mandalêśvara of Man-galavâda, and of his wife Târâdêvî;³ in A.D. 1077-78, or at some later time, she was managing the agrahâra of Nareyangal, which her husband had given for her angabhôga, i.e., by free translation, pin-money:⁴ — Lakshmâdêvî, who is invariably spoken of with the title of piriy-arasi or chief queen; she is mentioned in A.D. 1084-85, as ruling at the capital of Kalyâna, in A.D. 1095-96, as ruling the eighteen agrahâras and the town of Dharmâpura, i.e. Dambal, and in A.D. 1109-10 and the following year, as managing the village of Nittasiûgi; and she was still alive in A.D. 1125-26:⁵ — Jakkaladêvî, daughter of Tikka, of the Kadamba stock; in A.D. 1093-94 she was managing the village of Ingunige according to the tribhôg-abhyantara-siddhi:⁶ — Malleyamadêvî, or Malayamâtidêvî, who in A.D. 1094-95 was gov-