The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.156

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the first part of the *saṃvatsara*, in A. D. 1260. The earliest of the records is the Renadâl inscription,¹ which is dated vaguely in the Durmati *saṃvatsara*, Śaka-Saṃvat 1183 (expired), = A. D. 1261-62, without any mention of the month, &c. The latest of them is the Kallukeri inscription,² dated in the month Jyêshṭha (May-June), falling in A. D. 1270, of the Pramôdûta *saṃvatsara* (Ś.-S. 1193 current), cited as his eleventh year. But an inscription of his successor's time, at Dâvangere in Mysore,³ quoting vaguely the Prajâpati *saṃvatsara* (Ś.-S. 1194 current), = A. D. 1271-72, seems to connect him with a date in that year,—probably in the early part of it. The Inglêshwar and Kuligeri inscriptions, dated in A. D. 1265, mention Dêvagiri as his capital; and the latter of them gives him all the paramount epithets and titles: others of the records style him *Prauḍhapratâpa-Chakravartin*, *Bhujabalaprauḍhapratâpa-Chakravartin*. The Paiṭhaṇ grant of his successor, dated in A. D. 1272, claims that he overthrew Vîsala,⁴ i.e. the Chaulukya king Vîsaladêva of Aṇhilwâḍ.⁵ And Hêmâdri claims for him successes against also the kings of the Tailaṅga, Karṇâṭa, and Lâṭa countries, and against a certain Sôma or Sômêśvara in the Koṅkaṇ, possibly a member of the northern Koṅkaṇ branch of the Silâhâra family,⁶ who must have broken out into some act of rebellion against his sovereign. The records mention, as feudatories and officials,—the Gutta *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara* Gutta III. who was ruling at Guttavolal, with dates in A. D. 1261, 1262, and 1265; the *Mahâpradhâna* Dêvarâja, who in A. D. 1264 was governing the southern part of the kingdom; the *Mahâpradhâna* and *Sarvâdhikârin* Toragaleya-Dêvarasa,—in all probability identical with the preceding,—with dates in the same and the next years;⁷ the *Mahâpradhâna* Siṅgayya-Dêvananâyaka, with the date of A. D. 1264; a *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara* of the Hagarattage district named Gaṇapatidêvarasa, with the date of A. D. 1265; the *Mahâpradhâna* and *Sarvâdhikârin* Tipparasa, with the date of A. D. 1269; and the *Mahâpradhâna* and *Sarvâdhikârin* Viṭṭarasa, with the date of A. D. 1270. And Hêmâdri himself was one of his *Mantrins* or counsellors.⁷ It appears that this person was a zealous builder of temples; and that the Hêmâdpantî style of architecture, of which there are so many instances in the Dekkan districts and the Nizâm's Dominions, owes its name to him.⁸