The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s7.27

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After Vijayârka, his son Bhoja II. became Mahâmaṇḍaleśvara and reigned in the fort of Panhâḷâ. His dates are Śaka 1101, 1109, 1112, 1113, 1114, and 1127.¹ He granted the village of Kaśeḷi in Konkan near Khârepâṭaṇ on the application of his son Gaṇḍarâditya for feeding Brâhmaṇs regularly²; and gave lands for Hindu and Jaina temples in other places also. Two of the grantees in one case at Kolhâpur are called Kara-hâṭakas, which shows that the caste of Karhâḍe Brâhmaṇs had come to be recognized in those days; and two others bore the family name of Ghaisâsa, which is now found among Chitpâvan Brâhmaṇs.³ In the reign of Bhoja II. a Jaina Paṇḍit of the name of Somadeva composed in Śaka 1127 a commentary entitled Śabdârṇavachandrikâ⁴ on Pûjyapâda’s Sanskrit Grammar. The Kolhâpur chiefs enjoyed a sort of semi-independence. Vijjaṇa, the new sovereign at Kalyâṇa, however, endeavoured probably to establish his authority over Bhoja. But that chief was not content to be his feudatory, and to reduce him to subjection Vijjaṇa marched against Kolhâpur a little before his assassination in Śaka 1089.⁵ On the establishment of the power of the Devagiri Yâdavas, Bhoja seems similarly to have assumed independence; but Siṅghaṇa subdued him completely, and annexed the principality to the Yâdava empire.⁶