The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s6.20

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the sacrificial vow on the holy ground of the battle-field and throwing a great many kings into the fire of his prowess by means of the ladles of his weapons, performed a human sacrifice by immolating a victim in the shape of the fierce Rudra, the lord of the Tailangas, and vanquished the three worlds.¹ This same fact is alluded to in the Paithan grant, in which Jaitugi is represented to have killed the king of the Trikalingas in battle. He is there spoken of also as having released Ganapati from prison and to have placed him on the throne.³ The Rudra therefore whom he is thus represented to have killed on the field of battle must have been the Rudradeva of the Kakatîya dynasty whose inscription we have at Anamkond near Worangal, and the Ganapati, his nephew³ who was probably placed in confinement by Rudradeva. In other places also his war with the king of the Andhras or Tailangas and his having raised Ganapati to the throne are alluded⁴ to, and he is represented to have deprived the Andhra ladies of the happiness arising from having their husbands living.⁵ Lakshmidhara, the son of the celebrated mathematician and astronomer Bhaskaracharya, was in the service of Jaitrapala and was placed at the head of all learned Pandits. He knew the Vedas and was versed in the Tarkasastra and Mimamsa.⁶