The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.122

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part of the kingdom,—a subordinate of his; the Dandanâyaka Chikkadêva, and the Mahâmandalêśvara Jôyidêva II, of the Gutta family, with the date of A.D. 1238; a minister named Râmadêva or Râmarâja, with the date of A.D. 1240, apparently in charge of the territory in the neighbourhood of Ambâ near Aurangâbâd; the Mahâpradhâna and Bahattara-niyôg-adhipati Pârisaśeṭṭi, who in the same year was Sarvâdhikârin of the Hagaraṭṭage three-hundred; the Mahâmandalêśvara Lakshmîpâladêvarasa, who in A.D. 1241 was governing the Nâgarakhaṇḍa district; and the Mahâpradhâna and Bahattara-niyôg-adhipati, the Sênâpati Bâchirâja, who, in May-June, A.D. 1247, was in charge of all the Karṇâṭaka provinces; and was stationed at Pulikanagara, i.e. Lakshmêshwar. An inscription of A.D. 1213 at Gadag, coupled with the statement in the Paithan grant that he overthrew "Ballâḷa," shews that, even before the end of the reign of Vîra-Ballâḷa II, Siṅghaṇa succeeded in wresting back from the Hoysaḷas some of the territory that lay south of the Malparbhâ and the Krishṇa. And a record of A.D. 1215 at Baḷagâmve shews still greater success, in the same direction, within the next two years. Meanwhile, the Banavâsi province was still held by the Gutta Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Vîra-Vikramâditya II., whom a record of A.D. 1213 mentions as then ruling that territory at his capital of Guttavolal, and who may, as on a previous occasion, have been practically independent, pending the issue of the contest between Siṅghaṇa and the Hoysaḷas. The Khêdrâpur inscription of A.D. 1213, and one of A.D. 1218-19 at Kôlhâpur, shew that Siṅghaṇa very speedily subjugated the Śilâhâra territory also,—subduing Bhôja II., the last member of the Karâḍ branch of that family.¹ And the subjugation of the central, western, and south-western portions of what had been the Western Ghâlukya dominions, was effected by the Dandanâyaka Vichaṇa, his viceroy for the southern part of the kingdom,—who reduced the Raṭṭas of Saundatti, and the Kâdambas of the Koṅkaṇ, i.e. of Goa;² this officer was also employed, more to the south and south-east, against the Hoysaḷas, and the Pâṇḍyas of Gutti, in the Noḷambavâḍi province, which is now the chief town of the Anantapur District, Madras Presidency;³ and he claims to have carried his invasion so far as to set up a pillar of victory in the neighbourhood of the river Kâvêrî.⁴ The references to Siṅghaṇa’s success against the Hoysaḷas, whose dynasty was the principal rival of his own, are naturally rather numerous. Other passages describe him as a goad to the elephants that were the Gurjaras, a wrestler against the Mâlavas, an uprooter of the water-lily that was the head of the Têluṅga king, and, subsequently, an estab-