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The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s5.11

The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s5.11

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c8.s5.11

Seunachandra's son Dhāḍiyappa⁵ became king after him and he was succeeded by his son Bhillama. After Bhillama, his son S'rīrāja according to the grants, or Rājugi according to the other authority, came to the throne, and he was succeeded⁶ by his son Vaddiga or Vādugi. Vaddiga is in the Saṃgamner grant represented as a follower of Kṛishṇarāja who was probably Kṛishṇa III. of the Rāshṭrakūṭa dynasty, and to have married Vodḍiyavvā, daughter of a prince of the name of Dhorappa. Then came Dhâḍiyasa,¹ who was the son of Vâdugi according to the Vratakhaṇḍa. Two of the grants omit his name, probably because he was only a collateral and not an ancestor of the grantor in the direct line, and the third has a line or two missing here. Dhâḍiyasa was succeeded by Bhillama, who was the son of Vaddiga or Vâdugi and consequently his brother.² Bhillama married according to the grants Lakshmî or Lachchhiyavvâ,³ the daughter of Jhañjha, who was probably the Śilâhâra prince of Ṭhâṇâ of that name. Lachchhiyavvâ sprang on her mother’s side from the Râshṭrakûṭa family, and through her son became “the upholder of the race of Yadu;”⁴ so that she was connected with three ruling dynasties and flourishing kingdoms. The Saṃgamner grant appears to have been issued by this Bhillama in the Śaka year 922, *i. e.* 1000 A.D., and the prince mentioned in