[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s18.194 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.194 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.194 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s18.194](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.194) Of the time of Kârtavîrya III., also called Katta and Kattama, we have three unquestionable inscriptions. Two are at Khânâpur in the Kôlhâpur State:³ they style him Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara, and furnish dates for him in the month Vaiśâkha (April-May), falling in A.D. 1143, of the Rudhirôdgârin saṁvatsara (Śaka-Saṁvat 1066 current), cited as the sixth year of the Western Châlukya king Perma-Jagadêkamalla II., and in Mârgaśira (Nov.-Dec.), falling in A.D. 1162, of the ChitrabHânu saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 1084 (expired); and the second of them says that he was then ruling at Nêsarge in the Belgaum District.⁴ The third is at Bail-Hongal in the Belgaum District,⁵ and furnishes some date in the Târaṇa saṁvatsara, Ś.-S. 1086 (expired), = A. D. 1164-65. And he is also mentioned, as a Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara, and plainly as a feudatory, in a record of A. D. 1165, which says that the Kalachurya king Bijjala, having subdued all kings, was then ruling the world with the one umbrella of sole sovereignty.⁶ There is a record at Koṇṇûr,⁷ which, if referable to Kârtavîrya III., as it seems to be, because it uses the name Kattama, not met with in the case of the other Kârtavîryas,—describes him, not only as a Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara, but also as a Chakravartin or emperor, and is dated in a year, unfortunately illegible, of his own rule. This record, which should undoubtedly be referred to a later period than the others, indicates very plainly that, at some period after A.D. 1165, taking advantage of the general confusion that must have prevailed during the overthrow of the Kalachurya power and of the last remnant of the Western Châlukya sovereignty under Sômêśvara IV., and during the time when the Yâdavas of Dêvagiri and the Hoysalas of Dôrasamudra were disputing the possession of the southern provinces, he established the independence of his family,—a position which his successors seem to have mostly maintained, until they were reduced to submission again, somewhere about A.D. 1230, by Vichana, the southern viceroy of the Dêvagiri-Yâdava king Siṅghaṇa. - [Previous: c8.s18.193](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.193) - [Next: c8.s18.195](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.195) - [Up: c8.s18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.194](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.194) · Pramāṇa