The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.112

c9.112

The next name that we meet with, is that of the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Sampakarasa. It occurs in an inscription at Balagâṃve in Mysore,³ and in that part of it which refers itself to the reign of the Kalachurya king Saṅkama, and gives a date in the month Chaitra (March-April), falling in A. D. 1179, of the Vikârin saṃvatsara (Saka-Saṃvat 1102 current), cited as his third year. The record mentions Sampakarasa as one of the witnesses in whose presence a grant was made to the gods Kêśava (Vishṇu) and Sômanâtha (Śiva). It does not state his pedigree. But it describes him as Gupta-vaṃśa-vardhi-vardhana, or “increasing the ocean of the Gupta race.” And there can be little doubt, if any, that he was one of the Guttas of Guttal, though he cannot at present be referred to his place in the genealogy.