The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c9.80

c9.80

The family is usually called the Gutta anvaya, kula, or vamśa. The members of it are described as "full-moons of the ocean of nectar which is the lineage of Chandragupta, the great supreme king of kings."¹ Their descent is deduced through a Vikramâditya, who is specified as king of Ujjayanî, i. e. Ujjain, in Mâlwa, and whom one record appears to represent plainly as himself a descendant of Chandragupta.² And the family is also stated to be a branch of the Sômavamśa or Lunar Race.³ The members of the family had the hereditary title, intended to commemorate their place of origin, of Ujjêni- or Ujjayanî-puravar-âdhîśvara, or "supreme lord of Ujjayanî, the best of towns;"⁴ for which, however, in one passage there is substituted Pâṭalî-puravar-âdhîśvara, or "supreme lord of Pâṭalîpura, the best of towns."⁵ They had the mṛigardju-lâñchhana or crest of a lion,⁶ and the vaṭavṛiksha-dhvaja or Garuḍa-dhvaja or banners of a sacred fig-tree and of Garuḍa.⁷ Their family-god was Śiva, under the name of Mahâkâla of Ujjayanî.⁸ Their chief town was a place named Guttavoḷal, meaning "the town of Gutta or of the Guttas," which may be safely identified with the modern Guttal in the Karajgi tâlukâ.⁹ And probably they ruled by hereditary right over only the immediately surrounding territory, which was known as the Guttolal, i.e. Guttavoḷal, naḍ or district.¹⁰ In A. D. 1188, 1191, and 1213, indeed, Vîra-Vikramâditya II. was ruling the Banavâsi twelve-thousand province, which, in one of the records, is called his nij-aiśvarya or "own proper lordship:" but he alone appears to have held this more extensive authority; and it seems unlikely that the family