The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.197

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⁵ Vikramapura is mentioned as a râjadhâni in one of the Arasîbîḍi inscriptions, of A. D. 1053, of the time of Sômêśvara I. (see page 435 above). It, therefore, existed before the time of Vikramâditya VI. But it seems to be the town which, Bilhaṇa says, he “built,” with splendid temples and palaces, near a temple of Vishnu-Kamalâvilâsin (Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 323; and Vikramâṅkadêvacharita, Introd. p. 44).