The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.156

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name five miles north of Srirangam in the Trichinopoly District; Madras Presidency,¹ in the month Chaitra (March-April), falling in A. D. 1128, of the Sarvadhârin samvatsara, Saka-Samvat 1151 (current). But this date, as also that of another record² which appears to say that he was reigning at Dôrasamudra in the month Kârttika (Oct.-Nov.), falling in A. D. 1233, of the Hêmalambin samvatsara (S.-S. 1160 current), overlaps the latest date for his father. And the earliest consistent date for him is furnished by an inscription at Jôdi-Basavanapura,³ which says that, having taken the Chôla kingdom, he was reigning there in the Vikârin samvatsara, S.-S. 1161 (expired), = A. D. 1139-40. Kannanûr is again mentioned as his capital in a record of A. D. 1250 at Râyasettipura;⁴ and a copper-plate grant, now in the Bangalore Museum,⁵ which is dated in the month Phâlguna (Feb.-March), falling in A.D. 1253, of the Paridhâyin samvatsara, S.-S. 1175 (current), mentions the same place by the name of Vikramapura,⁶ and speaks of it as "the great capital, which had been built, in order to amuse his mind, in the Chôla country, which he had conquered by the power of his arm." The latest date for him is furnished by an inscription at Arakere,⁷ dated in the month Kârttika (Oct.-Nov.), falling in A. D. 1254, of the Ânanda samvatsara (S.-S. 1177 current); and this record, citing the samvatsara as his twenty-first year, shews that the first year of his reign was the Jaya samvatsara, S.-S. 1157 current, = A.D. 1234-35. The records give him all the paramount titles,⁸ and style him Pratâpa-Chakravartin and Nissankapratâpa-Chakravartin. The copper-plate charter mentions Sômaladêvî, daughter of Vittarasa, as his patta-mahishî or crowned queen. But he had also a mahishî or queen named Vijjalâ, Bijjalâ, or Bijjalârânî, from whom his son and successor Narasimha III. was born.⁹ The Pândya records tell us that Srirangam was taken from Sômêsvara by the Pândya king Jatâvarman, otherwise called Sundara-Pândyadêva;¹⁰ and also disclose the fact that he had another wife, of the Châlukya stock, named Dêvalamahâdêvî, who bore him a son named Vîra-Râmanâtha; and a daughter named Ponnambalâ:¹¹ Vîra-Râmanâtha appears to have held local authority under the Pândyas. The record of A. D. 1233 mentions, as a minister of Vîra-Sômêsvara, the Mahâpradhâna and Paramavisvâsin, the Dandanâyaka Harihara, who had previously held office under Narasimha II.; and it speaks of Vîra-Sômêsvara as having fought against the "famous" Krishna-Kandhara, i. e. the Yâdava king Krishna of Dêvagiri.