The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.111

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Jaitugi I. was succeeded, probably in A. D. 1210, by his son Singhana, whose name appears also as Simha, Simhala, and Simhana. Of his reign, some fifty records are now known.⁵ The earliest of them, at Ingali in the Nizâm's Dominions,⁶ is dated in the month Âśvina (Sept.-Oct.), falling in A. D. 1210, of the Pramôdûta samvatsara, Saka-Samvat 1132 (expired); and the latest is the Kadakol inscription, from the Dhârwâr District,⁷ dated in the month Mârgaśira (Nov.-Dec.), falling in A. D. 1246, of the Parâbhava samvatsara (S.-S. 1169 current), which is quoted as the thirty-seventh year of his reign. This latter record indicates the Pramôdûta samvatsara, S.-S. 1133 current, = A. D. 1210-11, as his first regnal year; and, taken in connection with the actual date of the Ingali inscription, this would place the commencement of his reign in A. D. 1210, on or before Âśvina śukla 13, corresponding, approximately, to the 3rd October.⁸ His records are found at various places in the Khândêsh, Bîjâpur, Belgaum, and Dhârwâr Districts, from Bahâl and Pâtna on the north to Raṭṭehalli in the extreme south,—at Kôlhâpur, and in its neighbourhood,—at Ambâ, Chikka-Muddanûr, Gobbûr, Hagaritige, and Ingali, in the Nizâm's Dominions,—and at Ânawaṭṭi, Balagâmve, Kuppatûr, and Yalawâl, in Mysore; and it is thus plain that he eventually established his sway over the whole of the Western Châlukya kingdom. They give him the full paramount epithets and titles, including *Paramabhaṭṭâraka*,¹ and they style him *Pratâpa-Chakravartin*, and occasionally *Prauḍhapratâpa-Chakravartin*,² and Bhujabala-*pratâpa-Chakravartin*,³ and perhaps also *Yâdava-Chakravartin*. The Ingali inscription of October, A. D. 1210, says that he was reigning at Dêvagiri, and so also the Manôli inscription of A. D. 1216; the Khêdrâpur inscription of A. D. 1213 speaks of Dêvagiri as the place where he was established; and an inscription of A. D. 1216-17, at Yalawâl in Mysore,⁴ states that the same town headed a list of eighty-four fortresses. And the records mention, as feudatories and officials,—the *Mahâpradhâna* Nârâyaṇa-Lakshmidêva, who was the *Daṇḍanâyaka* for the *dakshiṇa-mahâ*, or southern part of the kingdom and was governing "many districts," and the *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara* Vîra-Bijjarasa, son of Ânegadêva, with the hereditary title of "supreme lord of Mâhishmatî, the best of towns,"—both with the date of October, A. D. 1210; a member of the Jimûtavâhana lineage and the Khachara race, named Mallidêva; the *Mahâpradhâna*, *Sarvâdhikârin*, and *Mahâparamaviśvâsin* or most confidential agent Mâyi-, dêvapaṇḍita, under whom, in A. D. 1215, a certain Hemmeyanâyaka was *Śuṅkâdhikârin* of the Banavâsi province, and who was himself governing the Halasige twelve-thousand in A. D. 1226; the *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara* Ballâladêva, of the Mâsavâḍi country, with the date of A. D. 1218;⁵ the *Daṇḍanâyaka* and *Sarvâdhikârin* Jagadala-Purushôttama, who appears to have been governing the Toragale six-thousand, and his younger brother, the *Daṇḍanâyaka* Jôgadêva, with the date of A. D. 1222; the *Daṇḍanâyaka* Vîchaṇa, Bichâ, Bichidêva, or Bichirâya, who was the viceroy for the southern