The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.149

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His name, again, appears also as Narasimha and Nrisimha. And a later record, of his son’s time,¹ tells us that his wife, the mother of Sômêśvara, was Kâlaledêvî. Of this reign we have at present only three records. One is an inscription at Harihar in Mysore,² dated in the month Mâgha (Jan.-Feb.), falling in A. D. 1224, of the Svabhânu samvatsara, Śaka-Samvat 1145 (expired). The second is an inscription at Śravaṇa-Belgoḷa,³ dated at the time of the winter solstice, in December, A. D. 1231, of the Khara samvatsara (Ś.-S. 1154 current). And the third is an inscription at Basarâḷ,⁴ dated in Vaiśâkha (April-May), falling in A. D. 1234, of the Jaya samvatsara, Ś.-S 1157 (current). The Harihar and Śravaṇa-Belgoḷa records give him the paramount epithets and titles of *samastabhuvanâśraya*, *śrîprithivîvallabha*, *Mahârâjâdhirâja*, and *Paramêśvara*; but the Basarâḷ inscription styles him *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara*. The Śravaṇa-Belgoḷa record styles him *Pratâpa-Chakravartin*; and the Basarâḷ record, *Niśśaṅkapratâpa-Chakravartin*. The Harihar and Basarâḷ records mention Dôrasamudra as his capital. In the Harihar and Śravaṇa-Belgoḷa records, he is called “the uprooter of the Makara or Magara kingdom or sovereignty,” and “the establisher of the Chôḷa kingdom or sovereignty;” and the Basarâḷ record claims that the valour of his arm broke the pride of the Sêvuṇa king. The Harihar record claims also that he was the king of the Male kings; that, like a thunderbolt, he cleft open the rock that was the Pâṇḍya king; and that he was a very Janârdana (Vishṇu) in destroying the demon Kaiṭabha in the form of the Kâḍava king. The same record mentions, as a person of considerable importance, the *Mahâpradhâna* and *Daṇḍanâyaka* Polâḷva, the son of a certain Attirâja or Attarasa, born at Nâraṇapura in the Andhra country; it styles him *Vaishṇava-Chakravartin*, or, freely, “an eminent leader among the Vaishṇavas;” it says that he was a minister of both Vîra-Baḷḷâḷa II. and Narasimha II., and that none others protected the Hoysaḷa sovereignty as he did; and it records that he built the great temple at which the inscription is. And the Basarâḷ inscription mentions a hereditary minister, the *Daṇḍanâyaka* Harihara, of Aḍḍâyida, who, it says, was the person who actually defeated the Sêvuṇa troops when they had laid siege to some place in the Hoysaḷa territory.