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THE EVIDENCE OF TRADITION.
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Among the Andhra Rajaputs, there is a family called Jampani's of Dhananjaya gotra who claim to be of the Kōta line.
The reference in this prasisti to the contests * of the Kötas with the Mallas, the Cholas and the Pāndya's must belong to the time when, as . followers of the Kösala king they came to South India under the leadership of Dēvavarma. There are dark suggestions in Drāvida Literature of a Mauryan expedition into the Deccan assisted by the Kõsars and Vadagus. The Vadagus or the Andhras referred to in these suggestions may possibly be the five clans of South Indian Rajaputs thus alleged to have followed the fortunes of Dēvavarma “ of the Trilinga command " (త్రిలింగ వాహినీ పతి దేననర్మ). The Kitas in this extract describe themselves as “ the weapon by which the Buddha root is dug up” (dogs og sogre), an expression very significant of the campaign they carried on against Avaidica faiths.
The Parichchēdi-Pūsapātis claim to have built Bezwada and resuscitated the worship of Durga' therein at a time when the Chalukyas were founding Jaina shrines there. They professed to carry on their fight for Vaidica Dharma with the means of sovereignty secured by the worship