The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.58

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1005; two inscriptions at Kukkanûr in the Nizâm's Dominions and Yalawâl in Mysore,¹ the dates of which, partially illegible, may be anything from S.-S. 920 to 929; an inscription at Kannêshwar in the Dhârwâr District,² dated in the Viśvâvasu saṁvatsara, S.-S. 927 (expired), = A. D. 1005-1006, while his feudatory, the Mahâsâmanta Bhîmarâja, also called Tailapana-ankakâra, was still governing, as under Taila II., the Banavâsi, Sântalige, and Kisukâḷ districts; an inscription at Hoṭṭûr in the Dhârwâr District, dated in the Plavaṅga saṁvatsara, S.-S. 929 (expired), = A. D. 1007-1008;³ a copper-plate grant from Khârêpâṭan in the Ratnâgiri District,⁴ dated in Jyêshṭha (May-June), falling in A. D. 1008, of the Kilaka saṁvatsara, S.-S. 930 (expired), which describes Satyâśraya himself as reigning over Raṭṭapâṭi or the country of the Raṭṭas, i.e. the Râshṭrakûṭas,⁵ and records a grant that was made by his feudatory, the Maṇḍalika Raṭṭarâja, of the southern branch of the Silâhâras of the Koṅkaṇ; and an inscription at Munawalli in the Dhârwâr District,⁶ dated in Srâvaṇa (July-Aug.) of the same saṁvatsara, falling also in A. D. 1008. The ninth is a copper-plate grant from Saṅgamnêr in the Ahmednagar District,⁷ dated in the month Bhâdrapada (Aug.-Sept.), falling in A. D. 1000, of the Sârvarin saṁvatsara, S.-S. 922 (expired): this record, containing a charter issued by the Yâdava prince Bhillama II., who was then ruling the Sêuṇa country, does not mention Satyâśraya, or, indeed, any paramount sovereign at all; but the connection between the Yâdavas of Sêuṇadêśa and the Western Châlukyas is shewn by the statement that it was Bhillama who killed Muñja, the enemy of Taila II.; and Bhillama can only have been ruling as a feudatory of the Western Châlukya kings with whom he was synchronous. From the Chôḷa records, we learn that Satyâśraya fought with the Chôḷa king Kê-Râjarâja-Râjakêsarivarman, who claims to have defeated him.⁸ On the other hand, the Hoṭṭûr inscription, while admitting that the Chôḷa king, — here called Nûrmaḍi-Chôḷa, and apparently named as Râjêndra,⁹ — having collected a force numbering nine hundred thousand, had pillaged the whole country, had slaughtered the women, the children, and the Brâhmaṇs, and, taking the girls to wife, had destroyed their caste, says that Satyâśraya put the Chôḷa to flight, and so acquired great stores of wealth and vehicles; and that, having thus conquered the southern country, he was, then, in A. D. 1007-1008, reigning over the whole earth at Tâvareyaghaṭṭa or Tovareyaghaṭṭa, i.e. at the mountain-pass of Tâvare or Tovare, — which seems to be the place where the decisive battle was fought.