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EPIGRAPHIA JAINICA. 67 of the Gangas who were unswerving worshippers of Gokarnēsvara of Mahēndra. Clearly therefore this Madhukēsvara and this Jayantīpura were established by the Kadamba line whom the Gangas must have displaced. Madhulinga in its modified form as “ Moholingo ” occurs as a personal name even to this day among the Oriya people of that part of the country.
A family.of Telugu Brahmans called the Jayantis have long been settled in Sreekurmam, a village near Chicacole in the Ganjam District. They must originally have hailed from Jayantipura (Mukhalingam) when it was a Kadamba capital. By the time of the late Rao Bahadur Kadamba
Chronology *V. Venkaiya, Epigraphist with the Government of India, the chronology of the Kadambas was not settled. I do not see that it has made any considerable advance towards a settlement even to-day. Venkaiya however refers to a Kadamba grant of Jayavarma which Dr. Hultzsch thought to belong to the Second Century A.D. Some fresh evidence is available to strengthen this suggestion. In the Annual Report on Archæology for 1914-15 just to hand some inscriptions belonging to the Satavahana period are given (pp. 120-121) in which the name Hariti appears. Now, the Kadambas were the earliest South Indian Ruling dynasty to style themselves “ Mānavyasa gotra, Haritiputra.” Hariti is a Buddhist goddess and Hariti, a Buddhist personal name from Buddhist
