The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.99

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⁶ See the Bhairanmaṭṭi inscription (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. III. p. 231).—No one has ever been able to tell me where the place is. But it should be a very well known, as it is the slightly differently spelt Koḷḷipāki which is mentioned in the Rājaśekharavilāsa, I., 53-56, as the birthplace of Rēṇukēśa, Rēṇukāchārya, or Rēvaṇaprabhu. According to the poem, Rēṇukēśa was born from the īśa or liṅga at Koḷḷipāki, into which he was absorbed again, when he had begotten a son named Rudramuniśvara, and had initiated him and given him the office of Guru. In his introduction to his edition of the Rājaśekharavilāsa, Gaṅgadhar Madiwaleshwar Turmari stated that Rēṇukēśa was one of the Pañchāchāryas or five preceptors who established the Liṅgāyat religion, and that he founded a maṭha or religious college at Koḷḷipāki, and gave the paṭṭādhikāra or