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Tungabhadra there is the city called Vidyanagari (Vijayanagar) 1 where there ruled the king Devarāya, son of Vijaya of the Yadava dynasty. Devarāya's. son was Immadi Devaraya. Kallinatha lived there at that time. * His grand-father was Vallabhadeva;t his mother was Nārāyaṇī and father Lakṣmidhara.' He belonged to the S'andilya Gotra." Under the orders of the king, he commented on the Sangitaratnakara.9
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Vijaya I, mentioned by Kallinatha reigned from 1418 to 1423; his son Devaraya II reigned from 1423 to 1446. 10 Immadi Devarāya reigned from 1446 to 1465. Thus Kallinatha must have lived in the second half of the fifteenth century.
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पुरीह विद्यानगरी चकास्ति तुङ्गातरङ्गैरभितः पवित्रा verse 6.
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* एतां शास्ति प्रौढ : श्रीदेवरायो विजयनृपसुतो यादवानां वरेण्यः verse 7 ..
कल्लिनाथार्यवर्यः
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' तस्यास्ति पुत्रः... इम्मिडिदेवराय : verse 8.
' सुधर्मेव सभा यस्य verse 9 and तस्यामस्ति ...
verse 10.
' वलभेश्वरदेवो हि यस्य साक्षात् पितामहः verse 11.
edition reads the name as तुत्तुलेश्वरदेव.
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माता नारायणी यस्य verse 12.
पिता लक्ष्मीधरः स्वयम् Ibid.
* शाण्डिल्य गोत्रजः सोऽयम् Ibid.
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तमाह कल्लिनाथाय स राजा बहुमानतः ।
रत्नाकरं व्याकुरुष्व लक्ष्यलक्षणकोविद || verse 13.
अतः स कल्लिनाथार्यो रत्नाकरनिबन्धनम् ।
कलानिधिं निबध्नाति । verses 14.
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Anandasrama
Inscriptions about Vijaya are available from 1418-1426; but Devarāya began to reign from 1423. So there must have been a joint rule by father and son for three years.
Scanned by Gitarth Ganga Research Institute
