The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.168

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The succession accordingly went to Kṛishṇa's son Râmachandra, also called Vīra-Râmachandra, Râmadêva; and sometimes simply Râma, the date of whose accession may be placed in A. D. 1271. Of his time we now have twenty-three records,—copper-plate grants from Paiṭhan in the Nizâm's Dominions, and from Ṭhâṇa; and stone inscriptions at Kôlhâpur and Sidnûrle, at Benkankoṇḍ, Chauḍadâmpur; Kâginelli, Kargudarī, Kyâsanûr, Lakshmêshwar, Nâgâvi, Narêgal (in both the Hângal and the Rôṇ tâlukas), Raṭṭêhalli, Shiggaoṇ, and 'Sirûr (Gadag tāluka) in the Dhârwâr District, and at Balagâmve, Ballêshwar, Dâvangere; Harihar, and Sorab in Mysore. The earliest of them, with a specific date, is the Paiṭhan grant,¹ which is dated on Mâgha śukla 12, corresponding approximately to the 13th January, A. D. 1272, of the Prajâpati saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 1193 (expired). An inscription at Narêgal in the Hângal tāluka, Dhârwâr District,² cites the Śrīmukha saṁvatsara (Ś.-S. 1196 current), = A. D. 1273-74, with a date in the month Vaiśâkha (April-May), as his third year; and thus indicates the Prajâpati saṁvatsara, Ś.-S. 1194 current, = A. D. 1271-72, as his first year. Various other records are in accordance with this.³ And, there being nothing in his predecessor's dates opposed to the assumption, we may take it that his accession was in the first part of the saṁvatsara, in A. D. 1271. The latest of his records is the Raṭṭêhalli inscription,⁴ which gives a date in the month Âshâḍha (June-July), falling in A. D. 1298, of the Vilambin saṁvatsara (Ś.-S. 1221 current).. But later dates are furnished for him by the Musalmân chronicler, as noted further on. The records give him all the paramount epithets and titles, and style him Prauḍhapratâpa-Chakravartin, Bhujabalaprauḍhapratâpa-Chakravartin, and Yâdava-Chakravartin. They mention, as feudatories and officials,—the Mahâpradhâna Achyutanâyaka, who in A. D. 1272 was governing the Śâsati district, i.e. Sâlsette, in the Koṅkaṇ; the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara and Maneya-samastasainyâdhipati, or commander of all the household troops, Sâḷuva-Tikkamadêva, with dates in A. D. 1277 to 1280; the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Bandanikeya-Sôyidêva, with the date of A. D. 1282; a certain Kṛishṇadêva, who was