The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.143

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the Kâdamba *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara* Kâmadêva, who was ruling at Hâṇumgal in A. D. 1196; the *Mahâpradhâna* and *Daṇḍanâyaka* the *kumâra* or junior Lakshma, Lakshmîdhara, or Lakshmîdêva, with the date of A. D. 1197; the *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara* Râyadêvarasa, "lord of Âsaṭimayûrapura, the best of towns," who, having become a minister, was governing at Hallâharada-koppa in A. D. 1199; the *Samasta-bahattara-niyôg-adhipati* and *Daṇḍanâyaka* Amritêśvara, with the date of A. D. 1202; the *Mahâpradhâna* and *Daṇḍanâyaka* Mallana, with the date of A. D. 1203; the *Daṇḍanâyaka* Kamaṭhada-Mallisetti, who, in the same year, was governing the Sântalige seventy¹ and the Nâgarakhaṇḍa seventy in the Banavâsi province; a certain Mâdhavayya, who was governing the Belvola three-hundred in A. D. 1207; and the *Daṇḍanâyaka* Ballayya, who was in charge of the royal city of Aṇṇigere in A. D. 1208. Also, the Harihar inscription of the time of Narasimha II., dated in A. D. 1224, mentions a *Mahâpradhâna* and *Daṇḍanâyaka* Polâḷva, who, it says, was a minister of Vîra-Ballâḷa II. as well as of Narasimha II., and who probably had much to do with the successes that were achieved by the first of his two masters. The latest date on record for Vîra-Ballâḷa II. is the full-moon day of the month Kârttika of the Prajâpati *saṃvatsara*, cited as his twenty-first year.² The year is Saka-Saṃvat 1134 current. And the corresponding English date is, approximately, the 23rd October, A. D. 1211. It is probable that he died soon after this date. For, an inscription at Gadag, dated early in A. D. 1213,³ shews that the Dêvagiri-Yâdava king Singhaṇa had then recovered some at least of the territory south of the Malprabhâ and the Krishna.