The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.14

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The earliest mention of Hoysalas is to be found in an inscription at Kaliyûr in the Tirumakûdlu-Narasîpur tâluka of the Mysore District,⁶ dated in the month Chaitra (March-April), falling in A. D. 1006, of the Parâbhava samvatsara, Saka-Samvat 929 (current); the record appears to mention a certain Apramêya, "lord of the Kotta mandala," an officer of the Chôla king Râjarâjadêva, and to tell us that he defeated a Hoysala minister named Nâganna, and pursued or repulsed the Hoysalas in war. But the first historical person in the family of Dôrasamudra, beyond whom the records do not carry back the pedigree, is the Mahâmandalesvara Vinayâditya, whose wife was