The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.98

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¹ According to Sir Walter Elliot (*Jour. R. As. Soc.*, F. S., Vol. IV. p. 22, note; and *Madras Jour. of Lit. and Science*, Vol. VII. p. 214, note), the place of Basava's absorption is said to be Samgam, in the Hunguud tâluka, Bijâpur District, at the junction of the Krishna and the Malparbhâ, where, he added, a depression in the *linga* at the temple of Samgamêśvara is still pointed out as the exact spot into which Basava entered. I am not prepared to deny the correctness of these statements. Still, as regards the true identification of the place, the prefix ‘Kudali’ seems to me to point rather to the historically much more important (see, e.g., page 445 above note 1) Kudal-Samgam, at the junction of the Krishna and the Tungabhadrâ.