The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s4.27

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Vijjaṇa’s death took place in S’aka 1089 (1090 current), or A.D. 1167. He was succeeded by his son Soma, who is also called Sovideva or Someśvara. The Belgaum copper-plate charter was issued by him on the twelfth of the bright half of Kârttika in S’aka 1096, the cyclic year being Jaya, to confirm the grant of land to fourteen Brâhmaṇs and the god Someśvara made by one of his queens named Bâvaladevî. The king had given her his consent to make the grant as a reward for a beautiful song that she sang on an occasion when the most influential persons, belonging to his own and other kingdoms had gathered together in his audience-hall. Soma reigned till S’aka 1100 and was followed by his brother Saṃkama, whose inscriptions come down to the cyclic year Subhakṛit. In an