The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.49

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Shortly after the above date, Bijjala introduced a reckoning of his own, of which the first year was the Dhātu saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 1079 current, = A. D. 1156-57, and assumed the biruda of Tribhuvanamalla and the designations of Bhujabula-Chakravartin and Kalachurya-Chakravartin. The earliest available record, dated in this reckoning, is an inscription at Aṇṇigere,¹ dated at the winter solstice, in December A.D. 1157, of the month Pausha of the Īśvara saṁvatsara (Ś.-S. 1080 current), which is here cited as the second year of Bijjala. This record, which exhibits the biruda of Tribhuvanamalla and the designation of Bhujabalu-Chakravartin, gives to Bijjala only the title of Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara. But it mentions him, with his title, biruda, and designation, in a formal preamble, of the usual style, customarily employed only in the case of paramount sovereigns. And, though Bijjala did not assume the full paramount style till A. D. 1162, there can be no doubt that in A. D. 1156 he threw off his allegiance to Taila III., and set himself up on equal terms with that king in part of the latter's dominions. It may be added here that the first instance, among available records, in which the designation Kalachurya-Chakravartin appears, is an inscription at Hūli in the Belgaum District,² dated in the month Śrāvaṇa (July-Aug.), falling in A. D. 1162, of the Chitrabhānu saṁvatsara (Ś.-S. 1085 current), cited as the seventh year of Bijjala. The combined designation Kalachurya-bhujabala-Chakravartin is met with earlier, in an inscription at Balagāṁve,³ dated probably in Bhādrapada (Aug.-Sept.), falling in A. D. 1158, of the Bahudhānya saṁvatsara (Ś.-S. 1081 current), cited as Bijjala's third year.