The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.226

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An account of an early dynasty of kings who called themselves Kadambas, has been given in chapter I. above. We have now to deal with two families of feudatory nobles who, with a slight difference of spelling, were called Kâdambas. As in the case of the names Chalukya and Châlukya, so, here also, the difference in the first syllable seems to imply that the Kâdambas could not claim a direct lineal descent from the early Kadamba kings. But, at the same time, the use of the title *Banavâsi-puravar-âdhîśvara*, or "supreme lord of Banavâsi, the best of towns," by families of which one at least had nothing whatever to do with the government of the Banavâsi province, indicates plainly that the Kâdambas did assert some genealogical connection with the Kadamba kings, of whose capitals Banawâsi was one, if it was not the principal one.² The family with which we are concerned in the present section, is that of the Kâdambas of Hângal, —the ancient Pânuṅgal and Hânuṅgal,—which is the chief town of the Hângal tâluka in the Dhârwâr District.³ These nobles had the hereditary right to rule the Pânuṅgal or Hânuṅgal district, which consisted of five hundred villages. And their capital was Hângal itself, which is mentioned in records by the appellations of Pânthîpura,⁴ Vairâṭapura,⁵ Virâṭana-koṭe,⁶ and Virâṭanagara,⁷ as well as by the ancient name from which the modern name is derived. They sometimes ruled also the Banavâsi province; but the numerous instances