The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.258

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but little information as to the feudatories and officials. An inscription at Harihar,¹ probably referable to A.D. 1150, states that a certain Kasapayyanayaka was then governing the Banavasi twelve-thousand under the orders of the Kalachurya Bijjala. The Bijapur inscription of A.D. 1151² expressly mentions Bijjala as a feudatory of Taila III.; and adds that Bijjala's subordinate, the Mahapradhana, Senadhipati, and Dandanayaka Mailarayya was then governing the Tardavadi thousand, i.e. the country in the neighbourhood of Bijapur. An inscription in the Dharwar District³ mentions the Mahasamantadhipati, Senadhipati, and Dandanayaka Mahadeva, as governing the Banavasi twelve-thousand and the Purigere three-hundred in A. D. 1152, directly under Taila III.; and an inscription at Balagamve⁴ mentions the same person, but with the title of Dandanayaka only, as governing the Banavasi province in A. D. 1155 under Bijjala, while Taila III. was still reigning, adding the statement that Bijjala himself was then governing "all the provinces," and that Mahadeva was Bijjala's own Dandanayaka. An inscription at Patna in Khandesh⁵ mentions a prince named Govana, of the Nikumbha family, with his councillor Changadeva, was governing in that neighbourhood in A. D. 1153-54, doubtless under one of the Yadava feudatories of the Seuna country. An inscription at Kukkanur in the Nizam's Dominions⁶ mentions a Mahapradhana named Ravaleyanayaka, with a date in A. D. 1156; and, in a postscript, it calls him a Mahapradhana of the Mahamandalesvara Bijjala. And the Pattadakal inscription of A. D. 1163⁷ shews that the Sinda Mahamandalesvara Chavunda II. had been ruling the Kisukad seventy, the Edagade seventy, and the Kelavadi three-hundred, directly under Taila III. Synchronously, the Mahamandalesvara Permadi and Vijayaditya, of the family of the Kadambas of Goa, were ruling the Palasige twelve-thousand, the Konkana nine-hundred, and the Velugrame or Belgaum seventy; the Ratta Mahamandalesvara Kartavirya III. was ruling the Kundi three-hundred; and the Silahara Mahamandalesvara Vijayaditya was ruling his hereditary territory in the neighbourhood of Karad: but the records have not yet made it clear, how far these princes acknowledged the supremacy of Taila III. The Bijapur inscription of A. D. 1151, and an inscription of A. D. 1157 at Kembhavi in the Nizam's