The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.63

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family of Saundatti, who are mentioned in a record of A. D. 1165¹ which says that Bijjala, having subdued all kings, was then reigning over the whole world with the one umbrella of sole sovereignty; a *Mahamandalesvara* of the Sinda family, named Isvara, with the hereditary title of "lord of Karahata, the best of towns," who in the same year was governing, at Halavur or Hallavur, several small districts in the Banavasi and Santalige provinces; the *Mahapradhana*, *Senadhipati*, and *Heggade* of the Hanumgal district, the *Dandanayaka* Siddhapayya, who was governing the Hanumgal five-hundred in the same year; and the *Mahasamanta* Kaliyamarasa, of the Jimutavahana lineage and the Khachara race, with a date in A. D. 1167. Slightly subsequent records shew that, during the whole of Bijjala's time, the *Mahamandalesvaras* Permadi and Vijayaditya II., of the family of the Kadambas of Goa, were ruling their possessions, the Konkana nine-hundred and the Palasige twelve-thousand; but the records do not make it clear that these powerful chieftains acknowledged the sovereignty of Bijjala over their territory. Inscriptions dated in the months Karttika (Oct.-Nov.) and Pausha (Dec.-Jan.), falling in A. D. 1165, of the Parthiva *samvatsara* (S.-S. 1088 current), cited in one case as Bijjala's tenth year,² state that he was then reigning at Kalyana, *i. e.* Kalyani in the Nizam's Dominions,³ which had previously been the Western Chalukya capital. And finally, an inscription at Balagamve,⁴ at the time of an eclipse of the moon and a *samkranti* on Sunday, the full-moon day of the month Vaisakha of the Sarvadharin *samvatsara* (S.-S. 1091 current), corresponding, probably, to the 24th April, A.D. 1168, says that, while still happily reigning over the whole earth with un-.