The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.83

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Vaiśākha (April-May), falling in A. D. 1018, of the Kālayukti saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 940 (expired),¹ to the month Kārttika (Oct.-Nov.), falling in A. D. 1042, of the Chitrabhānu saṁvatsara, Ś.-S. 964 (expired).² And among the records of this period we have also to count, though they do not expressly mention any paramount sovereign, the Kalas-Budrūkh grant of the Mahāsāmanta Bhillama III., of the Yādava family of Seuṇadeśa,³ who was ruling his hereditary province in A. D. 1025, and the Bhāṇḍūp grant of the Śilāhāra Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Chhittarāja,⁴ who in A. D. 1026 was ruling the whole of the Koṅkaṇ; both these persons were, without doubt, vassals of Jayasiṁha II. The Balagāmve inscription of A. D. 1019 describes him as a moon to the water-lily that was king Bhoja, i.e. as taking away the glory of Bhoja, just as the moon causes the water-lilies that bloom in the daytime to close their flowers at night,—and as defeating the Cholas and Chēras, and putting to flight the confederacy of Mālva:⁵ the Bhoja who is spoken of here, is the Paramāra king of Mālwa,—the brother's son of Vākpati-Muñja,—for whom we have the date of A. D. 1021-22, and who is said to have vanquished, among others, the Karṇāṭas, i.e. the Western Chalukyas.⁶ Several of the other records mention Jayasiṁha II. as defeating the Chola king.⁷ But none of them give details, except the Miraj charter, which records the grant of a village, in the Ededore two-thousand, that was made by him in A. D. 1024, on the full-moon day of the month Vaiśākha of the Raktākshin saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 946 (expired), when, having fought and subdued the mighty Chola, the lord of the five Dramilas, and having appropriated all the possessions of the lords of the seven Koṅkaṇs, his victorious camp was pitched near Kolhāpur in the course of a campaign for conquering the northern countries.⁷ The Chola king with whom he fought, was Rājēndra-Choladēva, otherwise called Madhurāntaka II. and Parakēsarivarman, who, in the usual manner, transfers all the successes to himself, and claims to have conquered the Iḍaiturai nāḍ, i.e. the Ededore district mentioned just above, which is to be identified with the country lying round Eḍatore, the head-quarters of a tāluka in Mysore,—to have penetrated as far as Banawāsi,—and even to have taken the whole of the Raṭṭapāḍi country from Jayasiṁha.⁸ The principal feudatories and officials of Jayasiṁha II. were,—a certain Chatta, Chaṭṭayya, or Chaṭṭaladēva, who seems to be Shashṭhadēva I., of the