The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.126

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render impossible.¹ The records shew that the Sarvajit samvatsara, Saka-Samvat 1090 current, = A. D. 1167-68, was counted as the first year of his reign.² One of them, dated in the month Chaitra (March April), falling in A. D. 1172, of the Nandana samvatsara, S.-S. 1094 (expired),³ states that he was then reigning at Kalyâna, which undoubtedly was in his possession. But he had also a seat of government at a place named Modeganûr, or Modeganûra-Kuppade, which has to be looked for somewhere in the Nizâm's Dominions.⁴ The records do not disclose any historical events.⁵ But they mention, as feudatories and officials,—the Mahâsâmanta, Sên-Adi-bahattara-niyôg-âdhishthâyaka; Mahâpradhâna, Sarvâdhikârin, Mahâpasâyita, and Dandanâyaka Bolikeya-Kêśimayya, who is said, in a record of A. D. 1168, to have been governing the Tardavâdi thousand, the Hânumgal five-hundred, and the Bânavâsi twelve-thousand, for a long time, and for whom we have also dates in A.D. 1169, 1170, and 1172, in records which further describe him as Heggade of the Bânavâsi province and the Huligere district, Sunka-panndyad-adhishthâyaka, and Kannada-Heri-Lâla-samdhivigrahin; Bijjala and Vikrama, sons of the Sinda Mahâmanḍalêśvara Châvuṇḍa II., and nephews of Sôvidêva himself, who in A.D. 1169-70 were ruling the Kisukâḍ seventy, the Bâgadage seventy, and the Kelavâdi three-hundred; the Dandanâyaka Têjirâja, Adhikârin of the Belvola district and Bahattara-niyôg-âdhipati, with the date of A.D. 1170; the Mahâmanḍalêśvara Îśvara, of the Sinda family, with the title of "lord of Karahâta, the best of towns,” who in A.D. 1172 was governingat Hallavûr; the Dandanâyaka Vâsudêva, son of the Kêsimayya mentioned above, with the same date, A.D. 1172; the Mahâpradhâna, Sênâdhipati, Bâhattara-niyôg-adhipati, and Hiriya-Dandanâyaka Mâdhavayya, with the date of A. D. 1173; the Mahâmandalesvara Vîra-Râmadêvarasa, “lord of Koppana, the best of towns,” and belonging to the lineage of Nâcharâja, with the same date; the Mahâmandalesvara Vîra-Gonkarasa, of the Bâna race, son of Udayâditya-Vîra-Kâlarasa who was the son of Vîra-Gonkarasa, with the same date; the Mahâmandalesvara Sôvidêvarasa, doubtless of the family of the Kâdambas of Hângal, and his Pradhâna, the Hattabôva Acharasa, with the same date, A. D. 1173; a Mahâmandalesvara of the Kâdamba stock, apparently named Pândyadêvarasa, with the date of A. D. 1174; the Dandanâyaka Mahêsvaradêvarasa, the Dandanâyaka Mâyidêvarasa, Sunkaveggade of the Belvola and Huligere districts; and Indrakêsidêvarasa, the Mahâmandalesvara of the Huligere district, with the same date; the Mahâpradhâna, Sênâdhipati, and Dandanâyaya, the kumâra Bammidêvarasa, with the date of A.D. 1175;¹ and the Dandanâyaka Sômadêva, son of the Mahâpradhâna, Sênâdhipati, and Dandanâyaka Ammanayya, with the date of A. D. 1176. Also, contemporaneous records show that in A. D. 1169 and 1170 the Pândya Mahâmandalesvara Vijaya-Pândyadêva, “lord of Kânchi, the best of towns,” was ruling the Nolambavâdi thirty-two-thousand at Uchchangî;² and that, during part of Sôvidêva’s reign, the Mahâmandalesvaras Permâdi and Vijayâditya, of the family of the Kâdambas of Goa, and, after them, Vijayâditya’s son Jayakêsin III., for the rest of the reign, were ruling the Konkana nine-hundred and the Palasige twelve-thousand: but it is doubtful whether the Kalachurya sovereignty was acknowledged by these powerful feudatories in such outlying parts of the kingdom. The latest date on record for Sôvidêva is the full-moon day of the month Mâgha of the Durmukha samvatsara (Saka-Samvat 1099 current), which is cited as his tenth year. The corresponding English date is, approximately, the 16th January, A.D. 1177.