The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s7.37

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One of the many titles used by the Śilâhâras was Śrîman-Mahâ-lakshmî-labdha-vara-prasâda, i. e. “one who has obtained the favour of a boon from the glorious Mahâlakshmî.” Mahâlakshmî was thus their tutelary deity, and they were clearly the followers of the Purâṇic and Vedic religion; but they patronized both Brâhmaṇs and Jainas alike; and their impartiality is strikingly displayed by the fact noticed above of Gaṇḍarâditya’s having placed an idol of Buddha, whose religion had well nigh become extinct, along with those of the gods worshipped by the other two sects, on the margin of the tank dug by him.