The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.119

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In this account, there is nothing inconsistent with the possibility of the revival of the Śaiva religion having been largely helped on, and of the establishment of the Lingâyat sect having been actually effected, by persons named Basava and Channabasava; and even of Bijjala having been assassinated, after his abdication, in connection with some political opposition to the movement, which he may have instigated or favoured.¹ But the narrative plainly indicates a totally different person, Êkântaḍa-Râmayya, as the originator of the movement. And, as the record describes Bijjala as simply a Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara when he made his grant to the temple, the event has to be placed in the time of Taila III., before A.D. 1162, when Bijjala completed his usurpation of the sovereignty.