The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c9.s2.t3.7

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In Konkan proper Mangaleśa continued his brother’s work with better results, and his reduction of the Revatidvīpa is described in considerable detail in the inscriptions. ‘When he was desirous of taking the island of Revati’, says the Aihoḷe inscription, ‘his great army with many bright banners, which had ascended the ramparts, as it was reflected in the water of the sea appeared like Varuṇa’s forces, quickly come there at once as his word (of command).’³ The later Chāḷukyan inscriptions assert that Mangaleśa had sufficient troops to occupy all the islands and that his forces crossed the sea by a bridge of boats to attack the Revatidvīpa. The Nerūr grant has nothing to say of this island, but mentions that Mangaleśa killed a certain Svāmirāja of Chāḷukyan descent who had been victorious in eighteen battles. It appears probable that after Kīrtti-varman’s conquest of the Konkan, Svāmirāja was posted as viceroy in Revatidvīpa, and that the attack on the island was rendered necessary by his rebellion against the central power. The rebel was killed and his stronghold reduced, and another viceroy already functioning elsewhere in the Konkan, Dhruvarāja-Indravarman, was put in charge of the island after its reconquest