[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c9.69 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.69 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.69 - **Language:** English ### [c9.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c9.69) Some of them are disclosed by an interesting stone inscription at Bhairanmaṭṭi in the Bâgaḷkôt tâluka, Bijâpur District,⁴ which professes to give the origin of the Sinda family. The record refers first to the reign of the Western Châlukya king Taila II., and to the Vikṛita saṁvatsara, coupled with Saka-Saṁvat 911 by mistake for 912 (expired), = A.D. 990-91, when it says, there was a Sinda prince named Pulikâḷa, belonging to the family of the serpents, and born in the race of the Nâgas, who had the nâga-dhvaja or hooded-serpent banner, the vyâghra-lâñchhana or tiger crest, and the hereditary title of Bhôgâvatîpura-paramêśvara or “supreme lord of the town Bhôgâvatî,” which place, in Hindû mythology, was the capital of the Nâga king Vâsuki in Rasâtala, one of the seven divisions of Pâtâla or the subterranean regions. It then proceeds to give Pulikâḷa’s genealogy. It states that, from a desire to behold the earth, so belauded by the sons of men, there came from the lower regions the serpent king Dharaṇêndra; and to him there was born, at Ahichchhatra in the region of the river Sindhu (the Indus),⁵ a son, “the long-armed Sinda.” Being much perplexed at the birth of a son in human shape, Dharaṇêndra bade a tiger nourish the boy. The child was transferred by the tiger to the care of the lord of snakes. And so he was brought up, and eventually became king of the Sinda country, and married the daughter of a lord of the Kadambas, by whom he had three sons, from whom there sprang the Sindavaṁśa or race of the Sindas. The record then seems to state that thirty-one princes in succession ruled the Bâgaḍage district, and that then there was born another prince named Sinda. Then, it says, in this lineage of the Sindas of Bâgaḍage, which came without a break from “the long-armed Sinda,” there was a certain Kammara or Kammayyarasa. His wife was Sagarabbarasi. And to them was born the Pulikâḷa mentioned above. Carrying the genealogy a little further, it then tells us that to Pulikâla and Rêvakabbe there was born the \*Mahâsâmanta\* Nâgâditya,—an ornament of the family of the serpents, “lord of Bhôgâvatî, the best of towns,” lord of the banner of the hooded serpents Ananta and Vâsuki and Takshaka, a very Kâmadêva with his tiger-crest, an ornament of the Sinda family. Further, to this Nâgâditya and to his wife Polevabbarasi, there was born Polasinda. And the son of the last-mentioned was the \*Mahâmandalêśvara\* Sêvya or Sêvyarasa, a feudatory of the Western Châlukya king Sômêśvara II.,—the supreme lord of Bhôgâvatî, the best of towns, the lord of the banner of the hooded serpents, an ornament of the Sinda race. And finally, reverting to Nâgâditya, whom it indicates as a feudatory of the Western Châlukya king Jayasimha II., it furnishes for him the date of the \*Śrimukha samvatsara\*, \*Śaka-Samvat\* 955 (expired), = A.D. 1033-34. As already stated, Pulikâla and Nâgâditya, who are distinctly described as belonging to the family of the Sindas of Bâgadage, may very possibly have been ancestors of the Yelburga branch of the family. - [Previous: c9.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c9.68) - [Next: c9.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c9.70) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c9.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c9.69) · Pramāṇa