Just to recap on the Final days of Kadamba History: Ibn Battuta (b. Tangier, Morocco 1304-1377), the fourteenth-century Arab traveller, in his chronicles records that a family feud between ‘father and son’ invited the Nawab Jamal-ud-din of Honavar to invade Goa in 1344. This he apparently refers to one of the sons of Kadamba king Biradeva (1328-1345), who wrote to the Nawab Jamaluddin of Honavar inviting him to seize Sindabur, i.e.: Chandrapura (where Biradeva's crowned prince was assisting in administering the city while Biradeva and his other son were stationed at Govapura), promising that he would embrace Islam and marry the Nawab's sister. Jamaluddin, accordingly equipped a fleet of 52 sailing vessels to attack Gopaka. On Battuta expressing his wish to join the expedition, was made commander of the fleet under Jamaluddin’s supervision. However, Jamaluddin, instead of attacking Chandrapura, attacks Gopaura/Gopaka (sometime after monsoon in 1344) forcing the king to flee to Chandrapura and from there Biradeva mounts a counter attack and is successful in evicting Jamaluddin from Govapura/Gopaka. Yet, urged by the second son the conspirator, next year, October 16, 1345 Jamaludding mounts a second attack, perhaps simultaneously on Goapura and Chandrapura. By this time, Biradeva had died and his young son Suriyadeva was newly crowned. On the midnight of October 16, 1435, it is said Jamaluddin mounted a two pronged attack simultaneously on Gopapura (Gove-Goa Velha) and Chandrapura (Chandor) in which the newly crowned young king Siriyadeva was slain (as per oral tradition of 'internal conspiracy', by his own Chardo palace guards who slew the king with his own royal sword) and with him all the male members of the Kadamba family were killed. It is not very clear if Suriyadeva was killed at Chandrapura or at Gove. His young queen was away at her father's palace at Hangal. Family tradition has it that a messenger was sent to bring her back, and she hurried and arrived at Chandrapura on 18th October, 1345 (Moraes in his 'Kadamba Kula' says the queen who was away, arrived few days later) and only then she came to know of the treachery and the death of her husband. Prior to her arrival, all the females of the Royal court had ground their jewellry, tossed the powder in the river and jumped after, and had killed themselves. The distraught queen broke her bangles on the stone in front of the Santiago Chapel on the Chandor Cotta Kadamba gate and dusting her heels (three or four times) because she did not even want to carry the dust of the wretched city of Chandor on her feet, uttered her famous curse and was secretly escorted to Jayakeshi I Royal compound at Villiapura (modern Velim) and lived there in secrecy guarded by her loyal black smith subjects. Later she was joined by her father and nephew whom she adopted as her son and heir and this way the Hangal and Goa Kadamba lineage continued and extant to this day. MD From: Ujwala S Sawant <ujwalassaw...@yahoo.com> Subject: [Goanet] why Shivaji Jayanti??? Here important videos on Goan history, the Kadamba dynasty history: very interesting, keep watching Goans around the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KosShFvaw1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6q3y17LK80
