The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.258

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December, A.D. 1129, of the Saumya saṁvatsara (S.-S. 1052 current),¹ He was a feudatory at first of Vikramâditya VI., and then of Sômêśvara III. The records mostly represent him as ruling the Banavâsi province and the Pânumgal five-hundred; but the latest of them, of A.D. 1129-30, adds the Sântalige thousand. Two of them say that he ruled also over various other districts "acquired by the strength of his own arm;" but they do not name those districts. The Kargudavi inscription, of A.D. 1108, mentions his capital, Hângal, by the name of Pânthîpura, from which place, it says, he was ruling both the Pânumgal district and the Banavâsi province. Another record, of A.D. 1125-26, which mentions only the Banavâsi province, states that he was ruling it at Pânumgal. His wives were Bâchaladêvî, of the Pândya family, and Châmaladêvî, who was the mother of Tailama. The date of A.D. 1129, given above, is the latest certain date for him. But there are records at Yalawaṭṭi in the Hângal ṭâluka² which tend to shew that he did not die till the month Kârttika (Oct.-Nov.), falling in A.D. 1135, of the Râkshasa saṁvatsara (S.-S. 1058 current), and that his death occurred during, or shortly after, a siege of Hângal by the Hoysalas under Vishnuvardhana; that Vishnuvardhana did besiege Hângal, — and probably reduced it, as claimed for him, — is known from the Hoysala records.³