History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c35.s10: 4 Kadambas of Goa.
History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c35.s10
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4 Kadambas of Goa.
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These Kadambas of Goa or Gopakapaṭṭaṇa were a branch of the same Kadamba family though their origin in the records is given differently from that given in the records of the Kadambas of Hangal. They seem to have wrested Goa from the Śilāhāras of Southern Konkan (Konkan 900) and they also had territory above the Ghauts in the present Khanapur Taluka of the Belgaum District, then called Palasige. They other territories assigned to him, being a son-in-law of Vikrama. He even assumed the title of Konkan Chakravartin and aspired to independence. This led to his being attacked and defeated by Achugi I his feudatory who in his inscription is said to have taken Goa and Konkan. The Lakshmana inscription dated 1147 mentions that presents were given to him at the time of making grants to the god Somnath (Gazetteer page 569).
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The two sons of Jayakesin were Parmadi and Vijayaditya who were respectively devotees of Siva and Vishnu. They are also styled Malavara Mara an epithet applied to Hoyasalas. Vijayaditya was a very learned prince and earned the title Vanibhushana, and the praise bestowed on him in an inscription is well worth quoting* below. Kamaladevi queen of Parmadi belonging to the Somavansa built two finely carved temples one to Narayana and the other to Lakshmi, which still exist in the Sampagaon Taluka, Dharwar and they contain inscriptions which give for Parmadi a date in 1147 A. D. It appears that Vijayaditya was shortly afterwards associated with him in rule, and is mentioned in an inscription dated 1158 A. D. (I. A. XI p. 273) as also in the Halsi inscription dated 1171 Kaliyuga era 4272. The Karad prince Vijayaditya is said in Silahara records to have re-established the prince of Goa who thus must have been dislodged by some one. These princes were, however, powerful enough to have issued coins of their own and a golden coin struck by Parmadi has been found dated 1182 A.D.
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Vijayaditya's son Jayakesin appears to have come to the throne in 1187, as two inscriptions of his 13th and 15th year dated 1199 and 1201 have been found. Gold coins of his have been found dated 1200 and 1210. His son was Tribhuvanmalla and his son was Chhatta or Shashthadeva II. He came to the throne in 1246, from a record at Goa dated in his fifth year 1250 A. D. and another record dated 1257 found in the Hubli Taluka shows that he was an independent king. When and how this kingly line came to an end cannot be stated as no further records have yet been found. Probably they were conquered by the Yadavas of Devagiri (J. B. R. A. S. IX p. 247).
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* भृगो कुन्ते प्राप्ते धनुषि विषमे चासिफलकं धरे बाधे गीते सरसकविताशास्त्रविस्तरे ॥
तुंगयारोहे स्मृतिषु च पुराणेपु पुरजित् परिज्ञानाद्योऽभुज जगति बहुविद्याधर इति ॥
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The first ancestors Harivarman and others declare themselves as Mānavya-sagotra &c. even in Jain records many of which are found in Palasige ( Belgaum Dt.). See Bombay J. R. A. S. IX p. 235-241.