The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.106

c9.106

The first of their records is an inscription at Chauḍadâmpur.⁹ It opens by referring itself to the reign of the Western Châlukya, king Vikramâditya VI. It then mentions his feudatory, the *Mahâsamantâdhipati*, *Mahâdaṇḍanâyaka*, and *Mahâpradhâna* Gôvindarasa, who was governing the Banavâsi twelve-thousand. Then, introducing the Guttas, it tells us that, in the lineage of the Gutta kings or of king Gutta, there became famous a certain Mâgutta,—which name probably stands by metrical necessity for Mahâgutta. His son was Gutta I. And Gutta's son was Malla or Mallidêva. Then follows a description of a sacred Śaiva site called Muktitîrtha, on the Tuṅgabhadrâ, and an account of some princes of the Jaṭâ-Chôḷa lineage.