The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.589

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The Châlukya family must have thrown out several branches of petty chiefs. One such has been brought to light by a copper-plate grant dated *Śaka* 1182, *Raudra Saṃvatsara*, which was in the possession of the Khot of Teravaṇ, a village in the Rājāpur tāluka of the Ratnāgiri district.⁷ The donor Keśava Mahājani was the minister of a *Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara* or chief of the name of Kām-vadeva, one of whose titles was "the sun that blows open the lotus bud in the shape of the Châlukya race." He is also called *Kalyāṇa-puravarādhīśvara* or "lord of Kalyāṇa the best of cities," which like several such titles of other chiefs⁸ simply shows that he belonged to the family that once reigned with glory at Kalyāṇa. The village conveyed by the grant was Teravāṭaka, identified with Teravaṇ itself, from which it would appear that Kāmvadeva was chief of that part of Konkan. There is an inscription in the temple Section XII. of Ambâbâi at Kolhâpur in which is recorded the grant of a village by Somadeva who belonged to the Châlukya family and reigned at Sangameśvara, which is twelve *kos* to the north-east of Ratnâgiri. Somadeva was the son of Vetugideva and the father of the last was Karṇadeva.¹ Probably the Kâmvadeva of the Teravaṇ grant belonged to this branch of the family. There are still Marâṭhâ families of the name of Châlke reduced to poverty in the Saṃgameśvara Tâluka or in the vicinity.