The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.300

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Kalambhras, Keralas, Haihayas, Vilas, Mâlavas, Cholas, Pândyas, and others as steadfast allies of the Châlukya crown as the Gaṅga family of Chera and the Alupas whose loyalty was for the first time secured by Pulakeśi II.¹ The kings of Kâvera, or Kerala as it is read in some of the grants, of the Pârasîkas, who were probably the Syrians settled on the coast of Malabâr, and of Siṃhala were made tributaries. He also seems, like his grandfather, to have fought with and defeated some paramount sovereign of Northern India whose name is not given, and to have acquired all the insignia of paramountcy, such as a certain standard called Pâlidhvaja, the drum called Dhakkâ, and others. These events must have taken place after 616 Śaka, since they are not mentioned in his grant of that year, but in those of his successors.² A chief of the name of Malârâja Pogilli of the Sendraka family was a feudatory of his in the south about Maisur.³