The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.249

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There seems no reason to question any part of the genealogy from Chaṭṭa onwards. But the first member of the family, shewn in the table, in respect of whom we have definite data, is the Mahâmaṇḍalēśvara Kīrtivarman II., also called Kīrtidēva I. and Tailana-siṅga or "the lion of Taila,"— the son of Taila or Tailapa I. and Châvuṇḍaladēvī. He was ruling the Banavâsi province⁴ in the Kīlaka saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 980 (expired), = A. D. 1068-69;⁵ and he must then have been a feudatory of the Western Châlukya king Sōmēśvara I. or II. We have other dates for him, without an exact specification of its territory, in the Anala or Nala saṁvatsara, Ś.-Ś. 998 (expired), = A.D. 1076-77, and in the following year;⁶ when, on the latter occasion at any rate, he was a feudatory of Vikramâditya VI.