The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s16.68.4

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And, though he may really have penetrated as far as the Kṛishṇa, still his expedition does not seem to have been quite as successful as the records of his own family claim: for, the Sinda records maintain that, at the request or command of Vikramâditya VI., Achugi II. pursued and prevailed against the Hoysalas; and also that Permâḍi I. went to the mountain passes of the “marauder” Biṭṭiga,—besieged Dôrasamudra,—pursued him till he arrived at and took his city of Bêḷupura,—drove him on further to the mountain pass of Vâhaḍi,—and thus seized upon his royal power.⁷ Some of the successes attributed to Vishṇuvardhana are undoubtedly fictitious or hyperbolical: for instance, it is impossible,—unless he may have been employed, on distant expeditions, as a general of Vikramâditya VI.,—that he can have had anything to do with Chakragotta, in Mâlwa, and with the Lâṭa province in Gujarât; it is not likely that he ever really went as far to the east