The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.29

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⁴ P.S. and O.-C. Inscrs. No. 119; Mysore Inscriptions, p. 60.—According to Carn.-Dēśa Inscrs. Vol. I. p. 667, on a stone at the burning-ground near the tank near the house of the Sarāyadavanu at Hirē-Kerūr in the Dhārwār District, there is an inscription which refers itself to the reign of the Western Chālukya king Vikramāditya VI., mentions Bijjala as a contemporary Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara, and speaks of the latter's Mahā-pradhāna, the Daṇḍanāyaka Sōḍḍaladēva. But the transcript does not shew the date, which appears to have been broken away and lost. And, as the record styles Bijjala Bhujabala-Chakravartin,—a designation which he did not assume till A. D. 1156,—I feel convinced that there must be something wrong about either the original