[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s17.2 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.2 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.2 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.2) The Yâdava kings of Dêvagiri were descended from a line of feudatory nobles, some of the members of which have already been mentioned in connection with the Râshṭrakûṭa and Western Châlukya kings. Their claim to be "Yâdavas" probably rests on nothing but their Purâṇic genealogy, which appears first in a record of A. D. 1000, and must have been devised during the preceding century. And, since their original territory was called the Sêuṇa country, and the expression "the Sêuṇa king" is actually used to denote the first king Bhillama,¹ and he is also described as rendering highly prosperous the rule of the family of "the Sêvaṇa (i.e. Sêuṇa) kings,"² they would undoubtedly be more correctly called Sêuṇas. But they were known as Yâdavas to the Musalmân historians. So, also, the Hindû Pratâparudrîya speaks of them as the Yâlava kings of Sêvaṇa, i.e. of the Sêuṇa country.³ And the name has become so thoroughly well established, that it seems both unnecessary and undesirable to now set it aside in favour of simply a more technically correct appellation. - [Previous: c8.s16.178](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s16.178) - [Next: c8.s17.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.3) - [Up: c8.s17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17) ## Linked texts (1) - [Pratāparudrīya (Pratāparudrayaśobhūṣaṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.yasobhusana.prataparudriya) — Vidyānātha, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.2) · Pramāṇa