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1267) registers a gift of land to the temple of the Chhāyā-Sōmanātha of that place by Śārṅgapāṇidēva, son of the Sēuṇa king, Siṅghaṇa, a subordinate of Kākatīya Manuma-Rudradēva, who is Rudrāmbā.² We also learn from another epigraph at Hire-Kōgilūr in the Channagiri tāluk of the Shimoga district of the Mysore State dated Ś. 1190 (A.D. 1268) that this Śārṅgapāṇidēva was the father of Mahādēva.³ The fact that Śārṅgapāṇidēva, the father of Mahādēva, was compelled to accept service under Rudrāmbā and enrol himself as one of her vassals clearly indicates that the Sēuṇa king must have suffered a defeat, and thus the account in the Pratāpacharitra is confirmed. Evidently Śārṅgapāṇidēva, who had probably seized the fort of Pānugal during the invasion, was unwilling to surrender it and return to his native country even after the defeat and subsequent retreat of his son. Having realized that under these circumstances it would be impossible for him to exercise independent authority there, he appears to have decided to acknowledge the supremacy of the Kākatīya queen and to pay homage to her as one of her vassals in order to retain the fort in his possession.