The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.58

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elephant towards ill-mannered co-wives;” and the name was perpetuated by the Jain temple named Savati-gandhavâraṇa-Jinâlaya and Savati-gandhahasti-basadi which she built at Sravaṇa-Belgoḷa.¹ The earliest authentic date for Vishṇuvardhana is Chaitra śukla 5 of the Hêmalambin saṁvatsara, Saka-Saṁvat 1039 (expired), corresponding, approximately, to the 10th March, A. D. 1117, which is furnished by a copper-plate grant, of his own time, from Bêlûr in Mysore.² The latest is Pauṣa śukla 10, the day of the uttarâyaṇa-saṁkrânti or winter solstice, of the Piṅgala saṁvatsara, S.-S. 1060 (current), corresponding, approximately, to the 24th December, A. D. 1137, which is furnished by the Sindigere inscription also of his own time.³ The Bêlûr grant tells us that he first acquired the wealth of the Hoysala rule or dominions;⁴ that, pushing on so far as to take Taḷakâḍ,⁵ he was the first to promote the race of Yadu to the rule or dominions of the Gaṅgas; and that he burnt the capital city of the Gaṅgas. The meaning of this is, that he first brought his family into a really prominent position, by acquiring the Gaṅgavâḍi ninety-six-thousand province, which seems to have been then in the possession of the Chôḷa king, being ruled for him by feudatories, of whom three are mentioned by the names of Adiyama or Idiyama, Dâmôdara, and Narasimha or Narasimhavarman. And other records⁶ shew that this was accomplished by the agency of a Mahâ-pradhâna and Daṇḍanâyaka named Gaṅgarâja, who plainly himself belonged to the Gaṅga stock, and that the conclusive battle was fought at Taḷakâḍ. As regards the general conquests that are attributed to Vishṇuvardhana, the same record claims that in A. D. 1117 he had defeated the Paṇḍyas (evidently of Noḷambavâḍi), conquered the Tuḷu kings, destroyed the power of Jagaddêva,⁷ overthrown a prince named Narasimha (a feudatory of the Chôḷa king), subdued the Kaḷa, Chengiri,⁸ and Mala kings (apparently the chiefs of the Malepas or Malapas, who were the people of the Maleṇâḍ or the territory along the Western