The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.3

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As regards the origin of this family, an inscription at Harihar in Mysore, of the time of Bijjala,¹ gives the following account:—The founder of it, Krishna by name, was an incarnation, born from a Brahman woman, of a portion of the god Siva. Passing himself off as a barber, he contrived to kill, at Kalanajara, an evil-minded king who practised cannibalism.² And thus he, "an ornament of the Kalachuri family," acquired possession of the nine-lakh Dahala country, i.e. of the Chedi country in Central India. Many kings of his line ruled. And at length there arose, among them, a certain Kannama. To him were born two sons, Bijjala and Sandaraja; of whom the elder, Bijjala, succeeded him in the sovereignty. To Sandaraja there were born four sons,—Amugi, Sankhavarman, Kannara, and Jogama; of whom Amugi succeeded first, and was followed by Jogama. Jogama's son was Permadi. And to the latter was born Bijjala,—the reigning king at the time when the record was drawn up.