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with details falling in A.D. 351; published by Mr. Rice, Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 173, with & lithograph: the translation is also given in his Mysore Inscriptions, p. 293.
(8) The Mallohalli grant of Avinita-Kongapi, dated in the twenty-ninth year of his reign, in the Jaya samvatsara, which is taken by Mr. Rice to be Saka-Samvat 377 current (A.D. 454-55); published by Mr. Rice, Ind. Ant. Vol. V.. p. 136, with a lithograph: the translation is also given in his Mysore Inscriptions, p. 289.
(4) The Merkara grant of the same person, dated in the year 388 of an era which is unspecified but is taken to be the Saka era, with details which, whether the year is applied 88 current or as expired, fall in A.D. 466; published by Mr. Rice, Ind. Ant. Vol. I. p. 363, with a lithograph: the translation is also given in his Mysore Inscriptions, p. 282: the text, translation, and lithograph, have all been reproduced in his Coorg Inscriptions, p. 1.
(5) The Bangalore Museum grant of Durvinita-Kongani, dated in the third year of his reign, which is taken by Mr. Rice to be A.D. 481-82; published by Mr. Rice, Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 174: the translation is also given in his Mysore Inscriptions, p. 294.
(6) The Mallohalli grant of the same person, dated in the thirty-fifth year of his reign, the Vijaya samvatsara, which is taken by Mr. Rice to be Saka-Samyat 436 current (A.D. 513-14); published by Mr. Rice, Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 138, with a lithograph: the translation is also given in his Mysore Inscriptions, p. 291.
(1) The Hosur grant of Sripurusha-Pfithuvi-Kongani, dated Saka-Samvat 684 expired, with details falling in A.D. 762; published by Mr. Rice,-translation only,- Mysore Inscriptions, p. 284.
(8) The Nagamangala grant of the same person, dated in the fiftieth year of his reign, Śaka-Samvat 698 expired (A.D. 776-77); published by Mr. Rice, Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 155, with a lithograph: the translation is also given in his Mysore Inscriptions, p. 287.
(9) The British Museum grant of Ereganga, which takes the genealogy only as far as Sivamára-Kongani, and contains no date of any kind, but seems intended to belong to a later period than that of Sriparusha; published by myself, Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 229, with a lithograph.
The genealogy and dates furnished by these records are shewn in the Table on the opposite page. And such details as are derivable from them, from a Tamil chronicle called Kongudêta-rajákkal, and from some later documents which have not yet been published, have been compiled by Mr. Rice, with the result of a tolerably lengthy and circumstantial account, such as it is; the misfortune is that there is so very little, in all the early part of it, that is authentic.
In the inquiry into the nature of these records, the first point to attract attention is, except in the N&gamangala grant; and perhaps in the Hosûr grant, of which neither the text nor a lithograph is available, - the very marked badness of the orthography. Even the Nagamangala grant exhibits, here and there all through, just the characteristio slips that are to be expected somewhere or other in a document which, though prepared with skill and care, is nevertheless not genuine. But, as regards the other records, there are absolutely no genuine epigraphic remains which even approximate to them in this respect. And, for & suitable comparison, we have to go to such documents as the spurious Kartaköti grant, which parports to be of the time of the Western Chalukya king Vikramaditya I. and to have been issued in A.D. 610 (Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 217), but which is shewn, by even the date recorded in it, to be a palpable forgery, and belongs really to a very much later date. In respect of the British
1 Soe Mysore Inscriptious, p. xl. ff., Coorg Inscriptions, Introd. pp. 1-11, and, fiually, Inscriptions of Srabaya-Belgola, Introd. pp. 67-70; also some remarks in Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII. p. 187 4.
