The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.126

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For the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Bhôja II., also called Vîra-Bhôja and Vijayâdityadêvana-siṅga or "the lion of Vijayâditya," the earliest reliable date seems to be the winter solstice, in December, A.D. 1190, of the Sâdhâraṇa saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 1112 (expired), which is furnished by an inscription at Kôlhâpur;¹ and the latest, A.D. 1205-1206, which is furnished by a note at the end of the Śabdârṇavachandrikâ of Sômadêva, according to which the work was composed in the Krôdhana saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 1127 (expired), during the time of Bhôja II., at a Jain temple which had been founded by Gaṇḍarâditya at Ajurikâ in the Kôlhâpur country, i.e., evidently, Ajra, forty miles south of Kôlhâpur.² Valavâḍa, Kollâpura, and Paḍmanâladurga, Pranâlakadurga, or Paṇṇâledurga, are mentioned as places at which he ruled,—the latter being the well-known Panhâḷâ, about twelve miles to the north-west of Kôlhâpur.³ In his earlier years, he, like his ancestors, used simply the feudatory title of Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara. But the note at the end of the Śabdârṇavachandrikâ gives him the paramount titles of Râjâdhirâja, Paramêśvara, and Paramabhaṭṭâraka, and also styles him Paśchima-Chakravartin or "the western emperor." He must, therefore, have set himself up as an independent king during the period when Bhillama and Jaitugi I. were establishing the sovereignty of the Yâdavas of the Dêvagiri. But he was soon reduced by Jaitugi's successor, Siṅghâṇa, who held the territory in the neighbourhood of Kôlhâpur by at any rate A.D. 1218-19, and whose conquest of Bhôja II., mentioned in various records, seems to have been regarded as an achievement of rather special importance.⁴ Bhôja II. is the last member of this branch of the family, of whom we have any mention. Probably, the power of his family died out with him, and his territory was handed over to the charge of some ordinary official of the Dêvagiri-Yâdava dynasty.