The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.120.3

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He then, as is shewn by his own Gadag inscription and subsequent records, assumed the paramount epithets and titles of *samastabhuvanâśraya*, *śrîprithivîvallabha*, *Mahârâjâdhirâja*, *Paramêśvara*, and *Paramabhaṭṭâraka*, and the style of *Pratâpa-Chakravartin*, *Bhujabala-Chakravartin*, *Bhujabalapratâpa-Chakravartin*, *Hoysaḷa-Chakravartin*, *Bhujabalapratâpa-Hoysaḷa-Chakravartin*, and *Yâdava-Chakravartin*.³ And he established a reckoning of his own, running from the first year of his reign as paramount sovereign, which, the records shew, was the Virôdhikrit *samvatsara*, *Śaka-Samvat* 1114 current, = A. D. 1191-92.⁴ This position he maintained; and it was enjoyed also, though with a more limited extent of territory, by his successors. But he certainly did not acquire the whole of the Kuntala country, and the entire possessions that had belonged to the Western Châlukyas: the northern boundary of the Hoysaḷa kingdom, thus established, was evidently the Malparbhâ river, and the Krishṇa from the point where the Malparbhâ joins it: for, the records of Vîra-Baḷḷâḷa, in that neighbourhood, are found at Aṇṇigere in the Nawaḷgund tâluka, Narêgal in the Rôṇ tâluka, and Baḷagânûr, Gadag, Muḷgund, Mêyuṇḍi, and Nâgâvi, in the Gadag tâluka, of the Dhârwâr District, and nowhere on the north of the rivers mentioned;