The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.103

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Vishnuvardhana, then, was followed by his son, the Mahâmandaleśvara Narasimha I., whose name appears also in the forms of Nrisimha and Nârasimha. He, again, had the special birudas of Tribhuvanamalla and Bhujabala-Vîra-Ganga; and he was also styled Pratâpa-Hoysala. His wife, from whom Vîra-Ballâla II. was born, was Echaladêvî.⁴ That he actually succeeded, as Mahâmandaleśvara, to the government of the Hoysala territory, is shewn by one of the Sravana-Belgola records, which states that he ruled over the dakshina-mahî-mandala or "territory or province of the southern land,"⁵ — meaning probably all the country to the south of the Wardâ and of the Tungabhadrâ after the confluence of the Wardâ with it.⁶ Dates for him in A. D. 1127 and 1135, during his father's lifetime, are furnished for him by inscriptions at Tippûr and Bannûr.⁷ But the earliest date for him as Mahâmandaleśvara is contained in one of the Sravana-Belgola records,⁸