The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.76

c8.s17.76

The first paramount sovereign in this family was Karṇa's son Bhillama, who, in one of the Hoysala records, is called "the Sêuṇa King."[1] Of his time, we have three certain records. Two are stone inscriptions, at Muttagi in the Bijâpur District,[2] and at Aṇṇigere in Dhârwâr;[3] they are both dated on the occasion of the winter solstice, falling in December, A. D. 1189, of the Saumya saṁvatsara (Śaka-Saṁvat 1111 expired); and citing that saṁvatsara as the third year of his reign, they fix the Plavaṅga saṁvatsara, Ś.-S. 1110 current, = A.D. 1187-88, as his first year, and place his attainment of the sovereign power probably in A.D. 1187. The third is an inscription at Gadag in the Dhârwâr District,[4] dated on the occasion of the eclipse of the sun on Sunday, the new-moon day of the month Jyêshṭha of the Virôdhikrit saṁvatsara, Ś.-S. 1113 (expired): the corresponding English date is Sunday, 23rd June, A. D. 1191, when there was a solar eclipse, visible in India; and this is the latest reliable date that we have for Bhillama.[5] These records give him the paramount epithets and titles of *samastabhuvanâśraya*, *śrîprithivîvallabha Mahârâjâdhirâja*, *Paramêśvara*, and *Paramabhaṭṭâraka*,[6] and the style of Pratâpa-Chakravartin. Prior to A. D. 1187, he must have been a feudatory of the Western Châlukya king Sômêśvara IV., from whom, in the last year or two of his reign, — with which his own reign overlapped, — he wrested the northern and eastern portions of the Châlukya kingdom. The Aṇṇigere inscription claims that then, in December, A. D. 1189, "he had become the beloved of the goddess of sovereignty of the Karṇâṭa country, and was reigning