The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s6.58

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It thus appears that the Yādava empire became in the time of Singhaṇa as extensive as that ruled over by the ablest monarchs of the preceding dynasties. The full titles of a paramount sovereign are given to Singhaṇa in his inscriptions, such as "the support of the whole world," "the lover of the earth (*Prithvīvallabha*)," and "king of kings." Since Kṛishṇa, the eighth incarnation of Vishṇu, is represented in the Purāṇas to have belonged to the Yādava family, the princes of Devagiri called themselves *Vishṇuvaṃśodbhava*;⁴ and as Kṛishṇa and his immediate descendants reigned at Dvārakā, they assumed the title of *Dvāravatīpuravarādhīśvara*, "the supreme lord of Dvāravatī, the best of cities."⁵ In the reign of Singhaṇa as well as of his two predecessors the office of chief secretary or *Śrīkaraṇādhipa*, which in a subsequent reign was conferred on Hemādri, was held by a man of the name of Soḍhala. He was the son of Bhāskara, a native of Kaśmīr who had settled in the Dekkan. Soḍhala's son Sārṅgadhara wrote in this reign a treatise on music entitled *Saṃgītaratnākara* which is extant.⁶ There is a commentary