The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.349

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Of the time of the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Jayakêśin II. there are various records, which give dates for him ranging from the month Mârgaśîrsha (Nov.-Dec.), falling in A. D. 1119, of the Vikârin saṁvatsara, Saka-Saṁvat 1041 (expired),⁵ to the winter solstice, in December, A. D. 1125, of the Viśvâvasu saṁvatsara (S.-S. 1048 current), cited as the fiftieth year of the Western Châlukya king Vikramâditya VI.⁶ The last mentioned record speaks of him as ruling only the Palasige twelve-thousand and the Koṅkaṇa nine-hundred.⁷ But an intermediate record, five months earlier in the same year,⁷ states that, as a feudatory of Vikramâditya VI., he was ruling, in addition to the above-mentioned two provinces, the Payve, i.e. Hayve, five-hundred, and the Kavadidvîpa lâkh-and-a-quarter, which is evidently the Kâpardikadvîpa territory referred to above in connection with Jayakêśin I. And another record, of A. D. 1122,⁸ adds to his territory the Vêlugrâme seventy and the Hânumgal five-hundred, the latter being probably only temporarily in his possession. His feudatory title is given in all the records. But, that he aimed at a higher position, is shewn by the fact that he also styled himself Koṅkaṇa-Chakravartin or "emperor of the Koṅkaṇ."⁹ And there are other indications that he made an attempt, in his earlier years, to throw off the Western Châlukya supremacy : for, it is evidently to his time that we must refer the events which led to the prince Achugi II., of the Sinda family of Yelburga, taking Goa and giving it to the flames, and seizing upon the Konkan;¹ and he is undoubtedly the Jayakêśin whom Achugi's son Permâḍi I. defeated and put to flight. His differences with the Châlukyas, however, must have been very soon and permanently made up again; for, Vikramâditya VI. gave him his daughter Mailaladêvî in marriage.² He was defeated at some time or other by the Hoysala prince Vishṇuvardhana, who thereby acquired the Palasige province,³ but can hardly have held it more than temporarily. And he seems to be the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Jayakêśin whom one of the Lakshmêshwar inscriptions,⁴ dated in the month Âshâḍha (June-July), falling in A. D. 1147, of the Prabhava saṁvatsara (Śaka-Saṁvat 1070 current), mentions among the persons of distinction to whom presents were given, or had on some previous occasion been given, at the time of making grants to the god Sômanâtha.