The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.114

c9.114

An inscription at Haralahalli⁴ carries us a few steps further. It refers itself to the reign of the Kalachurya king Âhavamalla. And it then mentions his feudatory, the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Jôyidêva I. In introducing the pedigree of this person, it says that, in the famous lineage of king Vikramâditya of Ujjayanî, there were “many kings,” and, after them, “ten Guptas.”⁵ At some undefined point after them, it places a certain Mallidêva, who is styled Gupta-vaṃśa-Triṇêtra, “a very Triṇêtra (Śiva) in the Gupta race,” and Gupt-anvaya-bhûkânta, “a king belonging to the Gupta lineage,” and is evidently to be identified with the person of that name mentioned in the Chauda-dâmpur inscription of about A. D. 1115. Mallidêva’s son was Vîra-Vikramâditya I. The sons of the latter were Jôma or Jôyidêva I. and Gutta II.⁶ And Gutta’s son was Vikrama, who, further on in the same record, is mentioned again as the Mahâmaṇḍalêśvara Vîra-Vi-kramâditya II. With Jôyidêva I., there is connected the date of the winter solstice in December, A. D. 1181, of the Plava saṃvatsara,