[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s18.7 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.7 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.7 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s18.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.7) ghauts.¹ The records do not state the genealogical connection between the three branches. But, as the descendants in each branch attributed themselves to the lineage of Jîmûtavâhana, one of the Vidyâdharas or genii that attend upon the gods, and as the members of two of the branches at least had a hereditary title connecting them with a town named Tagara and carried the banner of a golden Garuda, there can be no doubt that they looked upon themselves as having all one and the same origin. The legend about Jîmûtavâhana² is, that he saved the Nâga or serpent king Saṅkhachûḍa from Garuda, by offering his own body to be torn instead of Saṅkhachûḍa’s; and the attribution of descent from him was doubtless devised in connection with the adoption of the more pretentious form of the family name, Silâhâra,³ meaning literally “food upon a stone or rock.” The name appears also in the plainer forms of Sîlara,⁴ Sîlâra,⁵ Silâra,⁶ and Siyalâra,⁷ of all of which Silâhâra seems to be simply the Sanskritised form. And the true original form of it is perhaps presented in an inscription of about A.D. 950 on the Sâlôtgi pillar, which mentions a family called Seḷara. - [Previous: c8.s18.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.6) - [Next: c8.s18.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.8) - [Up: c8.s18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.7) · Pramāṇa