The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.40

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So far, none of the customary feudatory or official titles appear in connection with Bijjala s name. But an inscription at Balagâmve in Mysore,¹ dated on a day in the Yuvan *saṃvatsara* (*Saka-Saṃvat* 1078 current) of which the English equivalent is probably the 26th December, A. D. 1155, styles him *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara*. There is the formal preamble, expressly referring the record to the reign of Taila III., as paramount sovereign; and the *saṃvatsara* is cited as his sixth regnal year. The record includes the rather pregnant statement, that Bijjala was then governing "all the provinces."² And it adds that Bijjala's own *Daṇḍanâyaka* Mahadêvarasa was governing the Banavâsi twelve-thousand in conjunction with the four *Karaṇas*, i. e. writers or accountants, Pôtarasa, Chaṭṭimaraṣa, Padmarasa, and Sôvarasa, who were "embodiments of the mind of Bijjala."³ The title of *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara*, here first applied to Bijjala, appears again in records of December, A. D. 1157, at Aṇṇigere and Tâlgund, and of January, A. D. 1162, at Balagâmve. After that, it was entirely dropped.