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of Rajamalla, we may venture to identify the Dharma-Mahirajidhiraja SatyavákyaKongunivarma-Permanađi of an inscription at Biļiûr, in Coorg, which cites a date in the month PhAlguns (Feb.-March), Saka-Samvat 809 (expired), falling in A.D. 888, as being in his eighteenth year, and thus fixes the commencement of his rule in A.D. 870 or 871. And, as we know that not long after this dato there was a ruler of the Gangavadi province named Ereyappa, whose son Rachamalla was killed by Batuga in or before A.D. 940, to Batnga I. we may also ascribe an insoription at Iggali, in Mysore, which, again, mentions the ruling prince as the Dharma-Mahúrájádhiraja Satyavákyl-Kongurivarma-Permanadi, and men. tions Ereyappa also, and further speaks of a certain Râchega-Ganga, who, it tells us, died fighting against the Nolamba, i.e. the Pallava prince of the Noļambavadi province, in the twenty-'. second year, i.e. in A.D. 891-99.
Båtaga I. must have been succeeded by Ereyappa. We have a record of this prince, mentioning him by the name of Ereyappa, in the Bêgur inscription, which describes him as a spotless moon in the sky that was the family of the Gangas, and says that, having deprived all his enemies of power, he was governing the Gangaviļi ninety-six-thousand as an united whole, and which further mentions a war between the army of the Nagattara and a certain ViraMahendra? who was probably one of the Pallavas of Nolambavadi, and an attack upon a person named Ayyapadêva. And, from the way in which the date fits in, we may ascribe to
1 The spurious 8ađi grant (see page 167 below, note 2) would make him grandson of Rajamalla, giving the intermediate names of Nitimirga-Kongupivarma-Eregavga, con of Rajamalla, and of a second SatyavákyaKongunivarma-Rajamalla, son of Eregangs and elder brother of Båtaga-(Bûterasa). As Yupardja, be may, of course, have been the grandson, quite as well us the son, brother, or nephew, of Rajanalla. But I cannot find anything to authenticate any of the alleged intervening names,
Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 102, No. II., with, lithograph; Coorg Inscriptions, p. 8.- As is to be expected from its date, this record shows the later cursive form of the 8, in Bifidr, line 8, beddore, line 9, elpadimbarun, line 10. and several other words, and the later cursive kl, in libhittar, line 13. In raroba, for saruna, line 7. and in some similar combinations, and in Bolidrs, line 14, it has a form of b which might suitably be called the "open").
Ep. Carn. Vol. III., Nj. 189.
I am dealing with only the really important and useful recorda, - mostly those which can be used to determine the succession or may be referred to speciflo individuals, through their giving personal names or dates, or
bieh otherwise present points of loading interest. In Ep. Carn. Vol. II1., record at Kyatanhalli (Sr. 147, with a lithograpb) mentions Satyavákya-Kongapivarma-Permanadi and Ereyappe, and another at Madahalli (Nj. 130) mentions Permadi, Mahadevi, and Ereyappa inscriptions of Satyavákya at Rampura (Sr. 148, with a litbograph), at Kappunogo (Nj. 68), at Gattavadi (Nj. 97), and at Nagarle (Nj. 156), may be records of Satyavákya: Batuga I. (or of some other Satyavákya), and so also may another inscription at Kotar, in Coorg (Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 103, No. III; Coorg I wription, p. 6); and an inscription at Pattaa mahalli (Sr. 134) may be referred either to Bataga I, or to Ereyappa. But these records teach us nothing, and cannot be placed with any certainty until we obtain other recorda, assignable without any doubt, mentioning the priests, elo., whose names occat in them.
• Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 346; for a lithograph, see the frontispiece of Mr. Rice's Mysore Inscriptions.
• The expression in the original is dka-okollattra-okohldyayol.under the shadow of a single umbrelin." Its parport is explained by such passages us that which tells us that Gangarája, the minister of the Hoysala prince Vishnuvardhana, having driven out all the feudatories of the Chola king from the Gangavadi province," brought under one umbrella all that (territory) which had become (oplit up into variowe sparate) districte," add-ddwdallaman-dka-chchhatram-ddi (Ep. Caru. Vol. III, ML 81, line 84, and compare a similar passage in Ingers. at Srav.-Bel. No. 90).
Mr. Rico (Ep. Carn. Vol. III. Introd. pp. 4,) seems to identify this person with the Mahendradbirkja of an inscription at Baragar, who was the son of Pallavedbirkja and of Jayabbe, younger sister of Ganga who had the Appellation of Nttimarge, 1.o., apparently, of Ereyappa himself. From a transcription which Mr. Rice has kindly sent mo, it appears that the Beragar inscription describes the younger sister of Nitimarga as slno daughter of Bismalla. This Nitimargu, therefore, was a son of Rajamalle.
I have said (Ep. Ind. Vol. I. p. 350) that it is possible, but by no means a certainty-that this person may be the Western Chalukya Ayyana I., of the time between the period of the Western Cbalukyus of Badmi and the period of the Western Chalukyas of Kalykpl. Mr. Rice, however (nee Ep. Caru. Vol. III. Introd. p. 4
