The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.296

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of the Kalachurya king Saṅkama, and describes him as *Kalachurya-rājya-samuddharaṇa*, “the upraiser of the Kalachurya sovereignty,” and by a Balagāṃve inscription of A. D. 1179, which mentions him as the commander-in-chief of all the forces¹ of Saṅkama. Further, a record of A. D. 1175² mentions this Brahma as himself a *Mahāpradhāna*, *Sēnādhipati*, and *Daṇḍanāyaka* of the Kalachurya king Sōvidēva; and it was evidently this position, which he probably continued to hold under Sōvidēva’s brothers and successors, that put it in his power to effect the revolution that he accomplished. The records of this reign, again, are not very numerous.³ They style Sōmēśvara IV. *Chālukya-Chakravartin*, like his father, and also *Chālukya-Pratāpa-Chakravartin*.⁴ They indicate that he established himself first at Aṇṇigere in the Dhārwār District,⁵ and only subsequently secured the capital of Kalyāṇa.⁶ And they mention the following feudatories and officials,—the *Mantrin* and *Daṇḍanāyaka* Brahma, already referred to, with actual dates in A. D. 1184 and 1185; the *Daṇḍanāyaka* Tējirāja, Tējimayya, or Tējugi, who, with his assistants the *Daṇḍanāyakas* Chākaṇa and Rēvana or Rēvarasa, was governing the Māsavāḍi district in A.D. 1184-85, apparently at Dharmāpura or Dambal, which is described as situated in that district; the *Mahāpradhāna* Ballayyasāhaṇi, with his *Sēnāpati*, the *Sāmanta* Rāma, and his *Daṇḍanāyaka*, Kēsirājayya or Kēsavabhaṭṭaya, the *Pergaḍe* of the Belvola district, for whom we have the date of A. D. 1184; the *Daṇḍanāyaka*, Bhāyidēva, son of the Tējugi mentioned above, who was governing the Kūṇḍi three-thousand in A. D. 1187; a certain Barma, son of the *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara* Bhūta or Āhavamalla-Bhūtiga, who, later in the same year, at Toragale, was ruling the Lōkāpura twelve, the Holalugunda thirty, the town of Doddavāḍa, the Naviluguṇḍa forty, and the Koleṇūru thirty; and the *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara* Kāmadēva, of the family of the Kāḍambas of Haṅgal, who in A. D. 1189 was ruling the Banavāsi twelve-thousand, the Pānuṃgal five-