The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.27

c9.27

There appear to have been more branches than one of this family. And we have to deal first and chiefly with that branch, the members of which had the hereditary right of ruling certain districts which were known separately as the Kisukāḍ seventy, the Keḷavāḍi three-hundred, the Bāgadage or Bāgadige seventy, and the Nareyaṃgal twelve, and collectively as the Sindavāḍi nāḍ.⁵ Of these districts, the first was the country lying round Kisuvolal or Paṭṭada-Kisuvolal, which is the modern Paṭṭadakal in the Bādāmi tāluka, Bijāpur District.⁶ The second evidently took its appellation from the ancient name, differing but slightly from the modern name, of the present Keḷavāḍi, Keḷvaḍi, or Keḷōḍi, about ten miles to the north of Bādāmi. The third, which in other records is called the Bāge seventy and the Bāgeṇāḍ seventy, was the country lying round the modern Bāgalkōṭ, the chief town of the Bāgalkōṭ tāluka in the same district. And the fourth was a small group of villages,—included, the records