[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.s3.247 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.247 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.247 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.247](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.247) twelfth year of which the cave-temple was consecrated is taken to be the reign of Mangalisa. On this supposition Mangalisa began to reign in 489 Saka; but I have elsewhere¹ brought forward what I consider to be very strong arguments to show that Mangalisa could not have come to the throne so early as that, and the only criticism² that I have seen on my observations seems to me to be very unsatisfactory and serves only to confirm my statement. The reign referred to, therefore, is that of Kirtivarman, and if its twelfth year fell in 500 Saka, Kirtivarman must have come to the throne in 489 Saka, corresponding to A.D. 567. In that inscription Mangalisa assigns all the good fruits of his charities to his brother in the presence of the gods Aditya and Agni and of the assembled crowd of men, and claims to himself only the fruit arising from serving his brother faithfully. In the copper-plate grant of the governor of Revati, referred to above, Saka 532 is mentioned as the twentieth year of the reign of a prince who, from the titles given there and from the fact that Mangalisa had about that period conquered the island, must have belonged to the Chalukya family. He could not have been Kirtivarman, for the island was not conquered in his time, neither could he be the successor of Mangalisa who, as I shall presently state, got possession of the throne in 533 Saka. He must therefore have been Mangalisa himself, and if Saka 532 was the twentieth year of his reign, he must have begun to reign in 513 Saka.³ Kirtivarman thus reigned from 489 Saka or A.D. 567 to 513 Saka or A.D. 591, that is, for twenty-four years. - [Previous: c8.s3.246](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.246) - [Next: c8.s3.248](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.248) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.247](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.247) · Pramāṇa