The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.210

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the Chôḷas, — probably meaning, this time, the Eastern Châlukyas, — again became proud and insolent ; that Vikramâditya’s army marched on Kâñchî; and took the city ; and that Vikramâditya amused himself there for some time, before returning to his capital.¹ But it does not appear that there were any other disturbances, except towards the end of the reign, about A. D. 1117, when the Hoysaḷa Vishṇuvardhana invaded Uchchaṅgî and the Beḷvola country, and carried his arms successfully so far to the north as to bathe his horse in the waters of the Krishṇaveṇâ, i. e. the Krishṇa.² The Hoysaḷas, under the immediate leadership of a Daṇḍanâyaka named Gaṅgarâja, claim to have inflicted a serious disaster, in a night attack, on the army of Vikramâditya VI. when it was in camp at Kaṇṇegâla.³ And the records of the Sinda chieftain Âchugi II., through whose instrumentality the invasion was stopped, — stating that he pursued and prevailed against Hoysaḷa, took Gôve, put Lakshma to flight in war, valorously followed after Pâṇḍya, dispersed at all times the Malapas, and seized upon the Koṅkaṇ; that he gave Gôve and Uppinakaṭṭe to the flames; and that, like a demon, he swallowed up and vomited forth a certain Bhôja, together with his troops which had invaded his country,⁴ — imply, either that the Kâdambas of Goa, the Pâṇḍyas of the Noḷambavâḍi province, and the Śilâhâras of Karâḍ joined with the Hoysaḷas in some general conspiracy against their sovereign, or else that they took advantage of the Hoysaḷa invasion to raise disturbances on their own account. As, however, the succession shortly afterwards duly passed to Sômêśvara III., no lasting injury can have been done to the Western Châlukya power.