The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.240

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Kîrtivarman had three sons at least, who were all young when he died. His brother Maṅgalîśa therefore came to the throne after him. Maṅgalîśa vanquished the Kalachuris, a family of princes ruling over the country of Chedi, the capital of which was Tripura or Tevur near Jabalpur. Buddha son of Saṁkaragaṇa, whom he is represented in one grant² to have conquered and put to flight must have been a Kalachuri prince, as the name Saṁkaragaṇa frequently occurs in the genealogy of the dynasty. Maṅgalîśa is said to have carried his arms to both the eastern and the western seas. On the coast of the latter he conquered what is called Revatîdvîpa, or the Island of Revatî. A copper-plate grant by a governor of this island was found near Goa,³ from which it would appear that Revatî was very probably the old name of Reḍi⁴ situated a few miles to the south of Vengurlem. In an inscription in a cave-temple at Bâdâmi, it is stated that the temple⁵ was caused to be excavated by Maṅgalîśa. He there placed an idol of Vishṇu, and on the occasion of its consecration granted a village, out of the revenues of which a ceremony called Nârâyaṇabali was to be performed and sixteen Brâhmaṇs to be fed every day, and the residue to be devoted to the maintenance of recluses. This inscription is dated in the twelfth year of some reign when 500 years of the Saka era had elapsed. The reign in the