The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.200

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Têrdâḷ inscription, however, discloses the fact that, in the month Chaitra (March-April), falling in A. D. 1187, of the Plavaṅga saṁvatsara, Ś.-S. 1109 (expired), a certain Bhâyidêva, a Daṇḍanâyaka of the Western Châlukya king Sômêśvara IV., was governing the Kûṇḍi province, which had been given to him by the king as a reward for defeating certain enemies who must have been some of the Raṭṭas of Saundatti. And this, while corroborating the inference made above as to the position assumed at this period by the Raṭṭas, also shews that they were not altogether successful in what they accomplished or aimed at. The wife of Kârtavîrya III. was Padmaladêvî, also called Padmâvatî.