The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.220

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The next name in the table is that of Vishṇuvardhana-Vijayâditya, the fourth son of Sômêśvara I., who in A. D. 1064 and 1066 was ruling the Nolambavâḍi thirty-two-thousand. This is taken from an inscription at the Jaṭinga-Râmêśvara hill, in the Chiṭaldurg District, Mysore, dated in the month Vaiśâkha (April-May) of the Krôdhin saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 986 (expired)² and from another at Dâvaṅgere in Mysore, dated in Bhâdrapada (Aug.-Sept.) of the Parâbhava saṁvatsara, Ś.-S. 998 (expired).³ The former of them states that he was ruling at the nelavîḍu of Kapili or Kampili, which is very probably the modern Kampli,⁴ on the Tuṅgabhadrâ, in the Hospeṭ tâluka of the Bellâry District. These records style him Vishṇuvardhana-mahârâja-Vijayâditya; they give him the biru-das of Âhavamallana-aṅkakâḷa, and Sâhasamalla or "the impetuous wrestler,"— the epithets of samastalôkâśraya and sarvalôkâśraya, "asylum of all mankind,"— and the title of Veṅgî-maṇḍal-êśvara or "lord of the province of Veṅgî:" they call him Châlukya-mâṇikya or "a ruby of the Châlukyas;" and they say distinctly that he was a son of Sômêśvara.⁵ He appears to be also mentioned in a record of A. D. 1074 at Niralgi, in the Hâṅgal tâluka, Dhârwâr District; in which case, he is there called Bhuvanaikamalla-Pallava-Permanadi-Vishṇuvardhana-Vijayâditya.⁶ But this is the only other notice of him that I have obtained. From Bilhaṇa failing to mention him, he seems not to have played any important part in the events of the reign of Sômêśvara II. And he had nothing to do with the succession.