[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.s18.95 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.95 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.95 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s18.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.95) banner of a golden Garuda,¹ and had, with a slight verbal difference, the hereditary title of \*Tagara-puravar-adhishvara\* or "supreme lord of Tagara, the best of towns."² Their family-deity was the goddess Mahalakshmi,³—evidently of the well-known temple at Kolhapur. And, from the way in which Bilhana, in his account of the marriage of the Western Chalukya king Vikramaditya VI. with Chandralekha or Chandaladevi, speaks of her as the daughter of the Vidyadhara prince who ruled over Karahata, and sends Vikramaditya to Karahata to attend her \*svayamvara\* or selection of a husband,⁴ it is plain that the Karahata province, consisting, as we learn elsewhere, of four-thousand cities, towns and villages,⁵ was the head-quarters division of their territory, and that their real capital was Karahata itself, which is the modern Karad, the chief town of the Karad taluka in the Satara District, at the junction of the Krishna and the Koyna.⁶ Their genealogical list is shewn in the table on page 545 above. - [Previous: c8.s18.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.94) - [Next: c8.s18.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.96) - [Up: c8.s18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.95) · Pramāṇa