The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.41

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any rate the time of Trilôchanapâla in A.D. 1051.¹ Some of the later records assert that, in addition to subverting the power of the Râshtrakûṭas, he overcame the king of Chêdi, the Utkalas or people of Orissa, and the kings of Chôḷa and Nêpâla, and subjugated the whole of the Kuntala country. The alleged conquest of Nêpâla is, of course, an invention of the poets; and probably the statements about Chêdi, the Chôḷas, and Orissa, are no more substantial, except in being perhaps based, in the first two cases, on some successful resistance of attempts at invasion. The subjugation of the whole of the Kuntala country, however, is a fact, which is amply borne out by the localities mentioned above, and by all the subsequent records, in some of which the Western Châlukyas are emphatically described as "the lords of Kuntala." The specific limits of this country are not yet known. But the statements in epigraphic records shew that it covered at least the whole of the Kanarese districts. On the south, it included Banawâsi in North Kanara, Baḷagâmve and Harihar in Mysore, and Hampe or Vijayanagara in the Beḷḷâry District; to the north of these places, Hângal, Lakshmêshwar, Lakkuṇḍi, and Gadag; in the Dhârwâr District; further to the north, Beḷgaum, Saundatti, Maṇôli, and Koṇṇûr, in the Beḷgaum District; and Paṭṭadakal and Aihoḷe in the Bijâpur District; and still more to the north, Têrḍâḷ in the Sânglî State; Bijâpur itself, and doubtless Kalyâṇi. And some of the principal and best-known divisions of the country were the Banavâsi twelve-thousand, the Pânumgal or Hângal five-hundred, the Puḷigere or Lakshmêshwar three-hundred, the Beḷvola three-hundred, the Kuṇḍi three-thousand, the Vêṇugrâma or Beḷgaum seventy, the Toragale or Torgal six-thousand, the Keḷavâḍi three-hundred near Bâdâmi, the Kisukâḍ seventy, of which Paṭṭadakal was the chief town, the Bâgaḍage or Bâgalkôṭ seventy, and the Tardavâḍi thousand, which was the country in the neighbourhood of Bijâpur.² It is to be understood, in fact, that Tâila II. acquired the whole of the Râshtrakûṭa kingdom, with the exception of the Gujarât provinces: and in the Khârêpâṭaṇ grant of A. D. 1008, the territory that was held by his immediate successor Irivabeḍaṅga-Satyâśraya, is specifically called Raṭṭapâṭi or "the country of the Raṭṭas or Râshtrakûṭas;" while in some of the Chôḷa records it is called the Raṭṭapâḍi seven-and-a-half-lâkh country.³ The Muñja whom he slew, as stated in the verse that is referred to