The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s6.59

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on this work attributed to a king of the name of Siṅga who is represented as a paramount sovereign of the Andhra circle. This Siṅga appears in all likelihood to be Siṅghaṇa; and the commentary was either written by him or dedicated to him by a dependant, as is often the case.¹ Châṅgadeva, the grandson of Bhâskarâchârya and son of Lakshmîdhara, was chief astrologer to Siṅghaṇa; and also Anantadeva, the grandson of Bhâskarâchârya’s brother Śrîpati and son of Gaṇapati. Châṅgadeva founded a Maṭha or college for the study of his grandfather’s Siddhântaśiromaṇi and other works at Pâṭṇâ in the Châlisgamv division of the Khândes district, and Anantadeva built a temple at a village in the same division and dedicated it to Bhavânî on the 1st of Chaitra in the S’aka year 1144 expired.²