The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.333

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A continuation of the Guḍikaṭṭi inscription, mentioned above, represents Jayakêśin I.,—whom it styles "lord of the Koṅkaṇ," but to whom it does not allot any title,—as a feudatory of the Western Châlukya king Sômēśvara I. in the *Nandana saṁvatsara*, coupled with *Saka-Saṁvat* 973 by mistake for 974 (expired), = A.D. 1052-53.³ Elsewhere, it is stated of him that he slew the king of Kâpardikadvîpa, destroyed the Chôḷas, and uprooted Kâmadêva,⁴—that he assembled the Kâdambas, conquered the Âlupas, and established the Western Châlukyas in their kingdom,⁵—that he caused the Châlukyas and the Chôḷas to become friends at Kâñchî,⁶—and that he made Gôpakapaṭṭana, *i.e.*, Goa, his capital.⁷ Kâpardikadvîpa is evidently the island, with the adjoining territory, of Shaṭshashṭi, Sâsaṭi, or Sâlsette near Bombay,—so named either after Kapardin II., of the northern Koṅkaṇ branch of the Śilâhâra family, who was ruling the Koṅkaṇ in A.D. 851 and 877-78 as a feudatory of the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Amôghavarsha I., or after his grandfather Kapardin I;⁸ and the king of Kâpardikadvîpa, slain by Jayakêśin I., is very probably the Śilâhâra prince Māmvāṇi, for whom we have the date of A.D. 1059-60: for, the Śilâhâra records themselves admit some serious reverse about that time, in telling us that Anantadêva or Anantapâla (A.D. 1095) "cast into the ocean of the edge of his sword those wicked heaps of sin (the Kâdambas) who, at a time of misfortune due to the hostility of relatives (the Śilâhâras of Karâḍ), obtained power, and devastated the land of the Koṅkaṇ, harassing gods and Brâhmaṇs."⁹ In the *Dvyāśrayakōśa* of Hēmachandra and Abhayatilaka, it is narrated that Karṇa I., of the dynasty of the Chaulukyas of