The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.122

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Of the time of the Mahâmandalêśvara Vijayâditya, whose name appears also as Vijayârka, and who, like Gandarâditya, was styled Ayyana-siṅga or "the lion of his father," there are various records which give dates for him ranging from the month Mâgha, with a date falling in February, A.D. 1143, of the Dundubhi samvatsara Saka-Samvat 1065 (current),⁵ to the month Chaitra (March-April), falling in A.D. 1153, of the Śrimukha samvatsara, coupled with S.-S. 1078 by mistake for 1075 expired or 1076 current.⁶ These two records mention him as ruling at Valavâda; and so do others of intermediate dates. The copper-plate charter of his son Bhôja II. tells us that it was through the friendship and assistance of Vijayâditya that the Kalachurya king Bijjala attained the sovereignty.⁷ And it also says that he re-instated in their territory the fallen lords of the province of Sthânaka, i.e., Thâna, and firmly established at Gôvâ, i.e. Goa, some kings whose power had been destroyed. The full bearing of this statement is not clear; but it probably means that the Kâdambas of Goa, under Jayakêśin II. or Permâdi, had encroached on the territory of the Silâhâras of the northern Konkan branch,—that Vijayâditya, compelled the Kâdambas to withdraw to their own proper limits, and revived the power of his relatives, in the person of Mallikârjuna,—and that he effected arrangements which resulted in the two powers in the Konkan living thereafter in peace and amity.