The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.116

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Narasimha I. was followed by his son Ballâla II., more usually called Vîra-Ballâla, who at first was a Mahâmandalésvara like his ancestors, but afterwards established himself as an independent king. He, again, had the special birudas of Tribhuvanamalla and Bhujabala-Vîra-Ganga. And from the commencement of his career he was called Pratâpa-Hoysala and Yâdava-Nârâyana. An inscription at Kaulûr, near Koppal in the Nizâm's Dominions,⁷ mentions, as his piriy-arasi or senior wife, a certain Remmâdêvî, who, partly because of her name, and partly because the record speaks of the Mâsavâdi district, in which Kaulûr was situated, as her own (native) district, probably belonged to the family of the Pemmâdi or Hemmâlidêva, prince of Mâsavâdi, who is mentioned in a Sravana-Belgola inscription of A. D. 1181, and in the Hirê-Wadawatti inscription of A.D. 1218 which is noticed at the end of this account of Vîra-Ballâla II.:⁸ it records that, in the month