The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.103

c8.s18.103

Regarding the earlier members of the family, nothing seems to be known beyond certain statements that are made in a copper-plate charter of A.D. 1058, which will be noticed more fully in connection with the prince, Marasimha, in whose time it was issued. This record styles Jatiga II. *Tagaranagara-bhupalaka* or "king of the city of Tagara," and *Pannala-durg-adri-simha* or "lion of the mountain of the hill-fort of Pannala." The latter epithet doubtless refers to the well-known Panhala, about twelve miles to the north-west of Kolhapur, which has always been a stronghold of repute and the scene of many sieges.⁷ The former expression is rather a peculiar one; for, it occurs in a metrical passage, in which the usual title *Tagara-puravar-adhishvara* would have suited the metre equally well, and it therefore presents the appearance of having been used with the object of indicating that Jatiga II. actually ruled at Tagara, which place must then, of necessity, have been somewhere in the neighbourhood of Kolhapur: the expression, however, is an isolated one; and, though it does seem far more emphatic and specific than the usual family title, it would be hardly safe to assume that it was intentionally used in the meaning suggested above. The same record describes Gonka as possessing the territories of Karahata, Kundi, and Mirinja, and the Konkan. The Kundi territory was a three-thousand province which constituted the hereditary domains of the Ratta chieftains of Saundatti:⁸ and Gonka can only have held it temporarily, somewhere about A.D. 1040 to 1050. Mirinja, which is also mentioned in the same record as Mirinja and Mirinja, is the modern Miraj, the chief town of the Native State of the same name, about twenty-eight miles to the east by north from Kôlhâpur;¹ and the territory belonging to it, described in the same record as a three-thousand province, must have been always a natural part of the possessions of this branch of the Śilâhâra family. The reference to the Koṅkaṇ must mean that Goṅka held for a while some portions of the territory belonging properly to its relations of the northern Koṅkaṇ branch. The record further describes Guhala or Guvala I. as a king of the hill-fort of Kiḷigala or Khiḷigila; this place, however, has not been identified.