The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.319

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There can be little doubt that the Kâdambas of Goa were of the same original stock with the Kâdambas of Hângal, though no indication has as yet been obtained as to the point at which the two genealogies may be joined. But the separation of the two families must be of considerable antiquity; for, even though one and the same person may be intended, each family had a different name for its founder, and a different account of his origin. As we have seen above, the Kâdambas of Hângal derived their descent from the three-eyed and four-armed Mayûravarman, a son of the god Siva and the Earth. Whereas the Kâdambas of Goa attributed their origin to the three-eyed and four-armed Jayanta, otherwise called Trilôchana-Kâdamba or "the three-eyed Kâdamba," who is said to have sprung from a drop of sweat that fell to earth near the roots of a kadamba-tree from the forehead of the god Siva, after his conquest of the demon Tripura. The records of the Kâdambas of Goa, however, do not give a long and questionable pedigree like that of their relations of Hângal.