The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.34.5

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Where his capital was, is not certain; though, as suggested above, it may very possibly have been Mâlkheḍ. But the localities named in the records mentioned above, shew that he established his sway over the whole of the southern part of the territories that had been held by the Râshṭrakûṭas. The pointed and regretful way in which the Bhadâna grant of the feudatory Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Aparâjita, of the Silâhâra family, issued in June, A. D. 997, and evidently within the period of his reign, speaks of his having overthrown Kakka II., indicates plainly that his supremacy was admitted in the territory of the northern branch of the Silâhâra family in the Koṅkaṇ. And the statement in the Saṅgamnêr grant of A. D. 1000, that it was the Mahâsâmanta Bhillama II., of the Yâdava family of Sêuṇadêśa, who actually defeated Muñja,⁴ shews that this feudatory prince also, whose province lay in the direction of Auraṅgâbâd, Nâsik, and Khândêsh, recognised his suzerainty in the more northern parts of the Râshṭrakûṭa dominions to the east of the Western Ghauts. On the other hand, he cannot have acquired any of the Gujarât provinces: for, not only have we dates ranging from A. D. 941-42 to 996-97 for the Chaulukya king Mûlarâja of Aṇhilwâḍ,⁵ whose successors, moreover, maintained the sovereignty for the next four centuries, but, also, somewhere about A. D.