The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.86

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The unbroken genealogy ends, for the present, with Anantadêva. And, as the Kâdamba prince Jayakêśin II. of Goa was holding the whole Koṅkaṇ, including the Kavadidvîpa lâkh-and-a-quarter, which is evidently the Kâpardikadvîpa mentioned above, in A. D. 1125, it is plain that during some considerable period after the time of Anantadêva, the power of this branch of the family was largely, if not entirely, in abeyance. But a stone inscription in the collection of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society¹ gives us the name of a Śilâhâra Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Mallikârjuna, with a date in the month Vaiśâkha (April-May), falling in A.D. 1156; of the Dhâtu saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 1078 (expired). There can be little doubt that he was descended in the same branch of the family. And he seems to have owed his position to Vijayâditya of the Karâḍ branch, which is said to have re-instated in their territory the fallen lords of the province of Sthânaka.²