History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c35.s9: 3 Kadambas of Hangal.
History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c35.s9
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3 Kadambas of Hangal.
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The third feudatory family which we have to notice is that of the Kadambas of Hangal. They were an old Maratha family, as old as the Raṭṭas or Rāshṭrikas of Aśoka, being descended from the Kadambas, the contemporaries of the early Chālukyas whose Mānavya gotra and Haritiputravaṁśa they always copied or used in their inscriptions, being of the same stock probably and ruled in Banavāsi. The present Kadambas (the form Kadamba is also often used) called themselves lords of the town of Banavāsi and sometimes ruled over that part also; but their present position was in Hangal 500 (Hannugal of insriptions) a Taluka of the Dharwar District. Their Lānchhana or crest was a lion and on their banner was Hanūmān. king of monkeys. They were worshippers of Vishṇu Madhukeśava of Jayantī or Banavasi town. We give a summary of the account of these Kadambas given by Dr. Fleet in Bombay Gazetteer Vol. I part II (p. 559 to 563).
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The first record (I. A. X. p. 249) which gives a detailed genealogy of these Kadambas is dated 1108 A. D. and the first king, we may notice in this period, is Kirtivarman II who ruled in 1058 A. D. (980 Śaka). He was a feudatory of Someśvara Chālukya and also of Vikramāditya VI (I. A. IV p. 206). His uncle Śantivarman II ruled in Hangal 500 as also in Banavāsi twelve thousand under Vikramāditya VI in 1089 A. D. Of his son Taila we have many inscriptions from 1099 to 1128 A. D. including the Kargudari inscription of 1108 mentioned above. All these inscriptions are found in the Hangal Taluka. His capital Hangal is also called Pānthipura and also Virātanagar. He died about 1135 A. D. This capital was besieged and taken by the Hoyasala Vishṇuvardhana. His two sons Mayūravarman and Mallikārjuna ruled conjointly with him. It must be noted of all these southern kings that Yuvarājas (brothers or sons) usually ruled conjointly. His third son Tailama is mentioned as ruling in Hangal alone in 1147 A.D. His son Kāmadeva is mentioned in 1189 as ruling in Banavāsi, Hangal and Puligeri under the last Chālukya king Someśvara IV. He was finally vanquished by the Hoyasala king Vira Ballāla. There were other Kadamba chiefs also of minor importance, but we need not notice them and we go on to describe the Kadambas of Goa who were an important allied branch of this family.