[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.s17.60 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.60 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.60 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s17.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.60) It is rather curious that a leading discrepancy occurs at this point,—just before the introduction of Bhillama, and in connection with his parentage. Hêmâdri leads us to infer that his father was Mallugi, the son of Simhirâja; no other paternal uncle of Kâḷiya-Baḷḷâḷa being mentioned by him. And his father is distinctly named as Mallugi in an undated record of the period A.D. 1210 to 1247, at Ânawaṭṭi in Mysore,⁵ and in the Haraḷahaḷḷi grant of A.D. 1238;⁶ and it seems to be implied by the Paithan grant of A.D. 1272, which adds, that Mallugi's father was Singhaṇa,—evidently identical with Hêmâdri's Simhirâja,—who, it says, subdued the king of Karṇâṭa, punished the Pâṇḍyas, and repulsed the leader of the Gurjaras.¹ These statements seem, at first sight, fairly conclusive. Nevertheless, a record of A. D. 1191, of the time of Bhillama himself,² tells us that his father was Karṇa; it says that there was a certain Sêvaṇa; that Sêvaṇa’s son was Mallugi; that Mallugi had two sons, Amaragaṅga and Karṇa; and that Karṇa was the father of the then reigning king, Bhillama. We can hardly avoid holding, with Prof. Kielhorn, that this statement regarding the parentage of Bhillama must be accepted; for it is difficult to believe that the author of the record could be mistaken in respect of the name of the father of the sovereign whose grant he was registering. And,—though it is not easy to make them fit in with Hêmâdri’s account, unless we assume that the name of Sêvaṇa or Sêuṇa was turned into Simhirâja or Siṅghaṇa by some copyist or through some other mistake,—there is also no apparent reason why the other names, immediately preceding that of Karṇa, should be rejected. Accordingly, this record being followed in preference to the others, the table of the Yâdavas of Dêvagiri will now stand as given on page 519 below. The kings of this dynasty had, like the Hoysalas of Dôrasamudra, the hereditary title of \*Dvârâvatî-pura-var-âdhîśvara\*, or “supreme lord of Dvârâvatî, the best of towns,”³ with reference to Dvârâvatî, Dvârâvâtî, or Dvârakâ,—the modern Dwârkâ in Kâṭhiâwâḍ,—the city of Krishna, the incarnation of Vishnu; the \*birudas\*, evidently borne by all them, of Yâdava-Nârâyaṇa, “a very Nârâyaṇa (Vishnu) among the Yâdavas,”⁴ and Râya-Nârâyaṇa, “a very Nârâyaṇa among kings;”⁵ and the epithet of \*Vishnu-vamś-ôdbhava\*, “born in the race of Vishnu;”⁶ and they carried the \*suvarṇa-Garuda-dhvaja\* or banner of a golden Garuda,⁷ which device also appears, instead of a separate crest, on the seals of their charters, sometimes alone,⁸ and sometimes in conjunction with a representation of the monkey god Hanumân,⁹ which appears alone in one instance,¹⁰ and may perhaps have been their \*lâñchhana\* or crest. - [Previous: c8.s17.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.59) - [Next: c8.s17.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.61) - [Up: c8.s17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s17.60) · Pramāṇa