The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.132

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Of the great feudatory families, next in point of antiquity comes that of the Raṭṭas, who, for about three centuries,—first as vassals of the Râshṭrakûṭas, then under the Western Châlukyas, and then apparently, as independent princes until they were subdued by the Yâdavas of Dêvagiri,—had the government of the Kuṇḍi or Kuhuṇḍi three-thousand province, which was a division of the Kuntala country and included the greater part of the Belgaum District and some of the neighbouring terrritory: the boundaries of this province are said to have been fixed by the chieftain Kârtavîrya I.,⁵ for whom we have the date of A. D. 980; and a reminiscence of it seems to have been preserved in the term mûru-sâvirad-ayya, "the Ayya of the three-thousand," which is still the title of an Ayya or Liṅgâyat priest at Hubḷi in the Dhârwâr District. Their capital was evidently