The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.49

c9.49

The Mahâmaṇḍalésvara Âchugi II., whose name appears also in the forms of Âcha, Âchi, and Âchama, was a feudatory of the Western Châlukya king Vikramâditya VI.; in consequence of which he was styled Tribhuvanamalladéva-késarin, or "the lion of Tribhuvanamalladéva." His wife was Mâdévî or Mahâdévî. Of his time we have one record,—at Koḍikop:² it speaks of him as ruling the Kisukâḍ seventy, and "several other towns" headed by Nareyaṃgal-Abbegere, the chief town of the Nareyaṃgal twelve which was included in the Belvola three-hundred; and it furnishes for him a date in the month Chaitra (March-April), falling in A.D. 1122, of the Subhakrit saṃvatsara (Saka-Saṃvat 1045 current), cited as the forty-fifth year of Vikramâditya VI. This record does not give any further information about him. But subsequent ones claim that he was a very hand-mill, for grinding the wheat which was an enemy named Jaggu, and that he plundered the country of a person named Hallakavadikeya-singa,³ that, at the command of the emperor Vikramâditya VI., he pursued and prevailed against the Hoysalas, took Gôve, *i.e.* Goa, put Lakṣhma to flight in war, caused the Pâṇḍyas to retreat, dispersed the Malapas or people of the Western Ghauts, and seized upon the Koṅkaṇ;⁴ and that he gave Gôve and Uppinakaṭṭe to the flames, and repulsed a certain Bhôja who invaded his territory.⁵ Some of the names thus mentioned have not yet been identified. But Bhôja must be Bhôja I., of the family of the Silâhâras of Karâḍ, whose date was shortly before A.D. 1110.⁶