The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.20

c9.20

charter from Goa,¹ which gives a date in the month Aśvina, falling in September, A.D. 1250, of the Sādhāraṇa saṃvatsara (Saka-Saṃvat 1173 current), cited as his fifth year; and fixes the Parābhava saṃvatsara, Kaliyuga-Saṃvat 4348 current, = S.-S. 1169 current, = A.D. 1246-47, as his first year.² The other is a stone inscription at Buradaśiṅgi in the Hubli tāluka, Dhārwār District;³ it styles him *Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara* and "lord of the western ocean;"⁴ it furnishes him a date in the month Vaiśākha (April-May), falling in A.D. 1257, of the Piṅgala saṃvatsara, S.-S. 1179 (expired); and it uses an expression which implies that, in spite of the feudatory title, he was then reigning as an independent king. The Goa charter records a grant, to the god Śiva under the name of Gōvēśvara, which was made by Shashṭhadēva II. in conjunction with a certain Kāmadēva or Kāvaṇa,—son of Lakshmidēva, and brother-in-law of Shashṭhadēva himself,—who, both in the body of the record and on the seal of the grant, is called "the establisher of Shashṭhadēva." It would seem, therefore, that it was only by some special effort that Shashṭhadēva II. succeeded at all to the authority held by his ancestors. And, as no later names have come to notice, the power of the Kādambas of Goa appears to have died out with him.