The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.145

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Sankama was followed, probably in A.D. 1181, by a younger brother, whose proper name is not disclosed by the records, and who is only known, by one of his *birudas*, as Ahavamalla. He also had the *biruda* of Vira-Narayana. The records give to him, again, the same paramount epithets and titles which are allotted to Sankama; and perhaps also that of *Paramabhattaraka*. And, like his predecessors, he was also styled *Kalachurya-Chakravartin*, and *Kalachurya-bhujabala-Chakravartin*. The earliest date actually on record for him is in the month Karttika (Oct.-Nov.), falling in A.D. 1180, of the *Sarvarin samvatsara* (*Saka-Samvat 1103* current).² The *samvatsara* is cited as a year of Ahavamalla himself.³ But the date falls before the latest date on record for Sankama. And other records shew that the first year of Ahavamalla's reckoning was the *Vikarin samvatsara*, S.-S. 1102 current, = A.D. 1179-80.⁴ And this tends to shew that Ahavamalla was associated in the sovereignty, with Sankama, from some time in A.D. 1179, and possibly, with some other indications, that in that year the two brothers divided the kingdom between them,—Sankama retaining the northern and eastern portions, and Āhavamalla receiving the country more to the south.¹ The records do not mention Āhavamalla's capital; but there seems no reason for thinking that he did not hold Kalyāṇa after his predecessor. They mention, as feudatories and officials,— the *Mahāpradhāna*, *Antahpura-vergade*, and *Mahāpasāyita*, the *Daṇḍanāyaka* Kēśimayya, who was ruling the Banavāsi twelve-thousand, at Baḷagāmve, in A. D. 1181, and in respect of whom a later record, of the same year, tells us that Āhavamalla, bidding him govern the region of the south in peace and quiet, gave him the Banavāsi province, and that he ruled it, including the Hayve, Sāntalige, and Eḍedore districts;² the *Daṇḍanāyaka* Chaṇḍugidēva, who is mentioned in the same record, of A. D. 1181, as having burned the territory of Vijayāditya, i.e. Vijayāditya II. of the family of the Kādambas of Goa, and taken the kingdoms of the Chōḷa and the Hoysaḷa; the *Daṇḍanāyakas* Lakshmaṇa, Rēchaṇa, and Kāvaṇa, mentioned in the same record; the *Mahāpradhāna*, *Bahattara-niyōg-ādhipati*, and *Daṇḍanāyaka* Hiriya-Sōvaṇayya, and the *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvaras* Vīra-Gōṅkarasa and Mallidēvarasa, with the same date; the *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara* Jōyidēva I., of the Gutta family, with the same date; and the *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara* Vīra-Vikramāditya II., son of Jōyidēva, with the date of A. D. 1182. The latest date on record for Āhavamalla is Bhādrapada krishna 13 of the *Śōbhakrit samvatsara* (Saka-Samvat 1106 current).³ The corresponding English date is, approximately, the 17th September, A. D. 1183. And the date on record for his successor shews that his reign must have terminated almost immediately afterwards.