The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.168

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Of the time of Kârtavîrya I., also called Katta, we have one record,—a stone inscription at Sogal in the Belgaum District,¹ which mentions him as the lord of the Kûṇḍi country, feudatory to the Western Châlukya king Taila II., and furnishes for him a date in the month Âshâḍha (June-July), falling in A. D. 980, of the Vikrama saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 902 (expired). The record of the period A. D. 1050 to 1096 mentions him again as a feudatory of Âhavamalla, i.e. Taila II., and says that he fixed the boundaries of the Kûṇḍi country.² And from this latter statement, coupled with the fact that his date is earlier by some five months than that of Śântivarman, it seems likely that he set himself up in opposition to Śântivarman, and eventually appropriated the entire province from that person.