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vedanga, and was administering half the area of 'sixty villages' in the region of 'one hundred and twenty villages of Gonka,' situated in the province of Alande. Bibbarasa appears to have belonged to a family of chiefs who claimed their descent in the lineage of Nabhiraja. The following information regarding the history of this family is contained in an unpublished incription of A. D. 1180 from Hoḍal, of my private collection.
Several chiefs born in the lineage of Nabhiraja ruled from the foremost town of Kopana. The later members of this family may be represented in a genealogical statement as follows:
Dhanka
Javanakula
Gonka I
Bibba
Gonka II
I
Rājarasa
Karta
Mallideva Gonka III
Bibba of the above genealogy may be identified with Bibbarasa of the HunasiHaḍagali record. It may also be noted that Gonka III is given the epithet Alade-vedanga (Alande-veḍanga) in the Hodal record. The tract of 'one hundred and twenty villages' mentioned above was probably carved. out for himself by Gonka I in whose time the family seems to have sprung to prominence.
This Bibbarasa has to be distinguished from his namesake Mahamandaleśvara Bibbarasa referred to in the fragmentary epigraph from Tengali (No. 16). A perusal of good many inscriptions discovered by the present writer at Tengali and Kalagi, has revealed that a family of Bāņa extraction who may be designated the Baņas of Khandava-mandala, was administering in a subordinate capacity in this area. These Bāņa rulers of Khandava-mandala whose existence was hitherto unknown, are ushered in for the first time by the author's epigraphic collection. Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara Bibbarasa was an early member of this family of Banas. The same chief figures in another inscription at Tengali, dated in A. D. 1106, of the reign of the Western Chalukya king Vikramaditya VI. A petty local official named Chaudhare Rakkasayya figures as the donor in the Hunasi-Haḍagali record.
Kopparasa, an important general of the Chalukya army, who bore the title Mahapradhana or 'great minister', is introduced by two inscriptions from Aḍaki, dated about A. D. 1115 and 1126 respectively in the reign of
