The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.305

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The latest date for Sômêśvara IV., furnished by the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Kâmadêva’s record, ¹ is the day of the uttarâyaṇa-saṁkrânti or winter solstice of the Saumya saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 1111 (expired); the corresponding English date is the 25th December, A. D. 1189. What became of Sômêśvara IV. after this date is not known. But inscriptions at Muttage in the Bijâpur District and at Annigere, dated on the same day, the winter solstice of the Saumya saṁvatsara, shew that king Bhillama, of the Yâdava dynasty of Dêvagiri, had by that time secured the northern and eastern portions of the Châlukya kingdom. And inscriptions at Balagânûr and Gadag in the Dhârwâr District, and at Balagâṁve in Mysore, dated in the months Mârgaśirsha (Nov.-Dec.) and Pausha (Dec.-Jan.) of the Paridhâvin saṁvatsara, Ś.-S. 1114 (expired), shew that before the end of A. D. 1192 the Hoysalas, under Vîra-Ballâḷa II., had made almost equal encroachments from the south; one of them, — the Gadag record, ² — expressly mentioning the fact that the Hoysala king had acquired sovereignty in that neighbourhood by defeating the general Brahmâ. It would seem, therefore, that, before the end of A. D. 1189, when probably the Yâdavas and Hoysalas were still disputing the possession of some of the southern provinces, Sômêśvara IV. had been driven back into the extreme south-west of his dominions, and that he then retained sovereign power over but little except the hereditary territory of his feudatories who belonged to the Hângal branch of the Kâdamba family. And it appears unlikely that he survived any length of time after that date. With him the dynasty of the Western Châlukyas of Kalyâni came to an end.