The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.152

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Krishna was succeeded, in A.D. 1260, by his younger brother Mahâdêva, also called Vira-Mahâdêva. Of this reign, eighteen records are now known, at Renadâl near Kôlhâpur, and at Kôlhâpur itself, at Pandharpur in the Shôlâpur District;² at Inglêshwar in the Bijâpur District; at Âlûr, Chaudadâmpur, Hulgûr, Kallukeri, Mêdûr, Pura, and Sangûr, in Dhârwâr; and at Kuligeri and Yâlige, in the Nizâm's Dominions. One of the Chaudadâmpur inscriptions,³ dated in the month Vaisâkha (April-May), falling in A. D. 1262, of the Dundubhi samvatsara (Saka-Samvat 1185 current), cites the samvatsara as the third year of his reign, and thus establishes the Raudra samvatsara, S.-S 1183 current, = A. D. 1260-61, as his first year:⁴ and, there being nothing in the dates of his predecessor opposed to the assumption, we may take it that his accession was in