The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.74

c9.74

And finally, an inscription at Harihar² mentions, as an official of the Pândya *Mahâmandalêśvara* Vijaya-Pândya of the Nolambavâdi province, a person of Sinda descent named Íśvara, for whom other records,³ describing him as a *Mahâmandalêśvara* ruling, at Halavûr or Hallavûr, over several small districts in the Banavâsi and Sântalige provinces, as a feudatory of the Kalachurya kings Bijjala and Sôvidêva, give dates in December, A. D. 1165, and May-June, A.D. 1172. This person had the hereditary title of *Karahâta-puravar-Adhîśvara* or “supreme lord of Karahâta, the best of towns,”—carried the *nîladhvaja* or blue-banner,—used the *vyâghra-mriga-lânchhana* or crest of a tiger and a deer,—and was heralded in public by the sounds of the musical instrument called *mallali*. And he derived his origin from a certain “long-armed Sinda,”—born from the union of *Śiva* with the river Sindhu, and brought up by the king of serpents on tiger’s milk,—who, being told that Karahâta, *i.e.* Karâd in the Sâtârâ District, was to be his residence, went there, drove out the king, acquired the earth for himself by the strength of his own arm, and so came to rule