The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.17

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Keleyabbe or Keleyaladêvî. He is represented as having been born at Sasapura; i.e. the Sasakapura or Sasakapurî which is mentioned in the myth about Sala. And he is said to have owed his rise to power to service done to a Jain teacher named Sântidêva.¹ No records actually referable to his own time have come to light. But a date is furnished for him by an inscription at Sindigere in Mysore,² which, written in A. D. 1137, states that, as Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara, he ruled all the territory included between the Koṅkaṇ, the Bhadadavayal province or district, Talakâḍ, and Sâvimale; and that on Phâlguna śukla 3 of the Sarvajit saṁvatsara, apparently coupled, and, if so, by mistake, with Saka-Saṁvat 961, in his presence, his wife gave a girl named Adekavve in marriage to the Daṇḍanâyaka Mariyâne and conferred on the latter the lordship of Sindigere in the Âsandi district or province. The corresponding English date appears to be, approximately, the 20th February, A. D. 1048.³ The discrepancy between the saṁvatsara and the Saka year of course detracts somewhat from the value of the date, which must have been taken from some family archive. But the date is a perfectly possible one. The record may, therefore, be accepted, as fixing the period of Vinayâditya with sufficient closeness. And, at the time established by it, he must have been a feudatory of the then reigning Chôla king. The same record would give him the biruda of Tribhuvanamalla; but this seems to be only borrowed from the fact that that biruda did belong to Viṣṇuvardhana and his son and grandson. So, also, the description of the boundaries of the territory which, it says, Vinayâditya governed, appears to be largely borrowed from the boundaries of the territory which was first acquired in full by Viṣṇuvardhana.