The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.81

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The next name is that of Akkadêvî, an elder sister of Jayasiṁha II., who is mentioned in several of the records, and appears to have been a personage of considerable reputation and importance. She was styled guṇada-beḍaṅgi, "a marvel of virtuous qualities," and êkavâkye, "she whose speech is single and uniform;" and she is described as "a very Bhairavî in battle and in destroying hostile kings." In A. D. 1021 or 1022, she was governing the Kisukâḍ seventy, under Jayasiṁha II.² And she continued in authority under Sômêśvara I.; for we find her described in a record of A. D. 1047 as having laid siege to the fort of Gôkâge, i. e. Gôkâk in the Belgaum District,—probably to quell some local insurrection;³ in A. D. 1050 she was governing the Kisukâḍ seventy, the Toṛagare six, and the Mâsiyavâḍi hundred-and-forty;⁴ and in A.D. 1053 she is mentioned again as governing the Kisukâḍ seventy, in a record which implies that the seat of her government was Vikramapura, which is the modern Arasîbîḍi in the Hungund tâluka, Bijâpur District.⁵ A record of A.D. 1066 mentions her as the mother of the Kâḍamba Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Tôyimadêva, who was then ruling the Banavâsi twelve-thousand and the Pânuṁgal five-hundred.⁶ Her husband, therefore, was one of the Kâḍambas of Hâṅgal; but his name has not yet been traced.