The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.54

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And finally, in A. D. 1162 Bijjala assumed the full paramount epithets and titles of samastabhuvanaśraya, śrīprithivīvallabha, Mahārājādhirāja, Paramēśvara, and Paramabhaṭṭāraka. The period when this step was taken is determined by inscriptions at Baḷagâmve¹ and Hûli.² In the former,—which is dated at the time of an eclipse of the sun on the new-moon day of the month Pausha, corresponding to the 17th January, A. D. 1162,³ of the Vishu saṁvatsara (S.-S. 1084 current), cited as the sixth year of Bijjala,—though no mention is made of Taila III., the feudatory title of Mahâmaṇḍalésvara is applied to Bijjala. While, in the latter,—which is dated at the winter solstice on Monday, Pausha kṛishṇa 2, corresponding probably to the 24th December, A. D. 1162,⁴ of the Chitrabhanu saṁvatsara, coupled with S.-S. 1084 (expired),—he has all the paramount titles mentioned above, with the exception of Paramabhaṭṭāraka.⁵ This Balagâmve inscription further tells us that Bijjala had then encamped at that town, in the course of a progress which was made to secure the southern country. From a combination of all these hints, it is evident that it was at this juncture, in A. D. 1162, that Bijjala completed the usurpation which he had been contemplating, and annexed to himself all the Western Châlukya dominions. And in this final step he appears to have received material assistance from the Silâhâra prince Vijayâditya of Karâḍ; for, a Silâhâra record of A. D. 1191 asserts that it was through the friendship of Vijayâditya that Bijjala attained the position of Chakravartin or emperor.⁶