[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s15.112 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.112 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.112 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s15.112](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s15.112) Among the Brâhmaṇs at a town named Alande in the Kuntala country, where there was a temple of the god Śiva under the name of Sômanâtha, there was one named Purushôttamabhaṭṭa, of the Vatsa or Śrîvatsa gôtra, well versed in all the Vêdas and Vêdângas. His wife was Padmâmbike. He and she lived together for some time, without having any offspring. And Purushôttamabhaṭṭa began to do special worship to Śiva, in order to obtain a son. One day, when Śiva, with Pârvatî, Brahman, Vishṇu, and Indra, and a count'less host of his Gaṇas or attendants, was in public assembly on the mountain Kailâsa, a leader of the Gaṇas, named Nârada, stood out and represented that, while Ôhila, Dâsa, Chenna, Siriyâḷa, Ha'âyudha, Êṇa, Udbhaṭa, Malayêśvara who came to Kailâsa in human form, Kêśavarâja,² and countless other Gaṇas, resigning the happiness of earthly life, had been dwelling in Kailâsa, engaged in the worship of Śiva, an opportunity had arisen for the Jains and Buddhists to become predominant and aggressive. Thereupon Śiva commanded his son or attendant Vîrabhadra to make a portion of himself incarnate, in the person of a man who should restrain these hostile rites. And Vîrabhadra appeared to Purushôttamabhaṭṭa in a dream, in the guise of a hermit, and announced to him that he should have a son, who was to be called Râma, and who should discomfit all those, in the dakshiṇâpatha or Dekkan, who had gone astray into the paths of the Jains. In due course, a son was born to Purushôttamabhaṭṭa. According to the god's command, he was named Râma. In conformity with his divine origin, he was taught to practise the Śaiva rites, with a view to ultimate absorption into Śiva. And, by the exclusiveness and intensity of his devotion to Śiva, he acquired the name of Êkântada-Râmayya or "the single-minded Râmayya." At various sacred Śaiva sites, with speech, body, and mind entirely given up to Śiva, he worshipped all the Sômanâthas of the south. And at length he did worship at the shrine of Sômanâtha at Huḷigere, e.g. at Lakshmêshwar in the Dhârwâr District. There the god appeared in person to him, and gave him the command to go to Ablûr, to take up his abode there,—to enter fearlessly into controversy with the Jains,—and to defeat them by wagering his head. Accordingly, he established himself at Ablûr, and continued to practise ascetism at a place known as the site of the god Brahmêśvara. One day, the Jains, led by one of the village-headmen named Saṅkagâvuṇḍa, assembled, and began to persistently sing the praises of Jina, as the sole god, in the vicinity of the image of Śiva which he worshipped. He remonstrated; maintaining that no other god deserved to be praised in - [Previous: c8.s15.111](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s15.111) - [Next: c8.s15.113](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s15.113) - [Up: c8.s15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s15) ## Linked texts (1) - [Basavapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.saiva.virasaiva.basavapurana) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s15.112](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s15.112) · Pramāṇa