The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.120.2

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To the earlier period of his career belongs also the statement in the Nirgunda inscription, that, as Mahâmandalêsvara, he ruled over the Gangavâḍi ninety-six-thousand at Dôrasamudra.⁵ Within the next ten years, however, he accomplished a very great change in his position. From his Gadag inscription of A. D. 1192,⁶ and from another record of his time, dated in A. D. 1202, at Aṇṇigere,⁷ we learn that, pushing on to the north of the Dhârwâr District, he defeated Brahma, the general of the Western Châlukya king Sômêsvara IV., Bhillama, the Yâdava king of Dêvagiri, and a certain Jaitrasimha, who may perhaps be, as was originally thought, Jaitugi I., the son of Bhillama, but seems now more likely to be a minister of Bhillama who is mentioned as Jaitasimha in a record at Gadag of A. D. 1191;¹ and that thus, according to the claim that is made for him in these records, by the favour of the god Nârâyaṇa he acquired the supremacy over the Kuntala country, and the universal sovereignty of the Western Châlukyas. This must have happened soon after June, A. D. 1191, when, as the record of that date at Gadag² shews, the country in that neighbourhood was in Bhillama's possession.