The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.123

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² It occurs probably in all the formal preambles, and in all the dates which are given according to his regnal years; and it sometimes occurs even in ordinary passages, where one would expect a Saṃskṛit form to be preferred.—He is called Sôma in, e.g., the Baḷagâmve inscription of A.D. 1168, which records the transfer of the sovereignty to him; and Sômêśvara in, e.g., the Harasûr inscription of A.D. 1173, which gives one of the traditional accounts of the origin of the family.—The transcripts in Carn.-Dêsa Inscrs. usually, if not quite always, represent the name as 'Sôyidêva,'—with y instead of v. This, however, is not in accordance with any of the texts known to me. The form Sôyidêva does occur in other instances; but not in the case of Bijjala's son.