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[VOL. XIV. perhaps as 66 Woravoy" (" Wórvayee in the Registration List of Bellary District), some seven miles W. of Kurgod; Manivür as "Munnoor" (i.e. Manaira), on the river Tungabhadra, in lat. 15° 29', long. 76° 47'; Sügüru as " Soogoor," also on the Tungabhadra,1 in lat. 15° 29', long. 76° 48'. Goranahāļu (if I have read the name aright) may possibly be "Goranhully," some sixteen miles S.W. from Kurgod; and Tekkekal may be safely identified with Tekkalakote ("Tekkulkota " of the old maps), in lat. 15° 32', long. 77° 11', the ending kote, kota, " fort," being a later addition, as in Bagalkot, the ancient Bagadage.
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
The Sinda Princes.
The Sinda race claimed to belong to the Naga-vamsa, or lineage of the mythical Snakes, and the members of it usually bore the title of " lord of Bhōgavati." Including the dynasty of Kurgöd, we know of several reigning houses of this stock. The earliest branch that appears on record is that which ruled in Bagaḍage (now Bagalkot) as feudatories of the Western Chalukyas at the end of the tenth and beginning of the eleventh centuries. Of them we have the pedigree: Kammayyarasa-Pulikala (Saka 912)-Nagatiyarasa (Saka 955)-PolasindaSevyarasa (see Ep. Ind. above, Vol. III, p. 230; Kielhorn's List, ibid., Vol. VII, app., Nos. 144 and 156).
Not very long after this we find another and a far more important branch, the Sindas of Erambarage (Yelburga), ruling in the same neighbourhood. The chief of these were Achugi II, c. A.D. 1122, who governed the Kisukaḍu Seventy and the Nareyangal Twelve as a feudatory of the Western Chalukya Vikramaditya VI; Permadi I, c. A.D. 1144, who ruled over the same provinces as well as the Kelavadi Three-hundred and the Bagadage Seventy under Vikramaditya VI and Jagadekamalla II; Chavanda II, c. A.D. 1163-9, originally a fendatory of the Western Chalukya Tails III, who administered the Kisukaḍu Seventy, the Bagadage Seventy, and the Kelavadi Three-hundred; and four sons of Chavunda, Achugi or Achidova III, A.D. 1163, Permadi II, A.D. 1163, Bijjala, A.D. 1169, and Vikrama, A.D. 1169 (see J. Bo. B. R. A. S., Vol. XI, p. 219 ff.; PSOOI, Nos. 67, 83; Ind. Ant., Vols. IX, p. 96, and XXX, p. 266; Kielhorn's List, Ep. Ind., Vol. VII, app., Nos. 218, 224, 233-4, 243). Achugi II and Permadi I waged successful wars against the Kadambas of Gove (Goa) and the Hoysalas of Dorasamudra, But the glory of their dynasty was short-lived: towards the end of the twelfth century the Hoysalas consolidated their kingdom to the north of the Tungabhadra, and before their risen star the Sindas of Yelburga apparently faded out of existence.
To this branch belonged a family that has left a record of itself in an inscription at Saḍi, which will be published with others from that town in this journal. We learn thence that Achugi or Acharasa II, the son of Singarasa II (a son of Achugi I), begot by Siriya-devi Permadi-deva and Chavunda II. Chavanda married another Siriya-devi, a daughter of Bijjala the Kalacharya; and their sons were Bijjala and Vikkayya (Vikrama). Vikkayya was ruling over Kisukad, under the suzerainty of his cousin the Kalachurya Sankama, at the time of the grant (Dyn. Kan. Distr., p. 576).
Yet another branch under the suzerainty of the Western Chalukyas is that represented by the Mahamandalstvara Mañja, ruling under Vikramaditya VI over the province of Arasibiḍi in Bijapur; he was the son of Sindaraja, who in turn was the son of Bhima, governor of the Pratyandaka Four-thousand (see above, Vol. III, p. 306; Kielhorn's List, ibid., Vol. VII, app., No. 189; Ind. Ant., Vol. XXX, p. 266).
Another section of the same race was that which bore the title "lord of Karahața" (in the Sätärä District); cf. Ep. Carn., Vol. VII, 1, Hl. 20, 50, Vol. XI, Dg. 42. To this belonged
1 This is proved by the reference to a temple of the river-goddess, 1. 49.
Bee, generally, Dynasties of the Kan. Distr., pp. 281 n., 299 n., 443, 450, 458, 458, 460, 462 f., 476 f., 485, 488, 497 1., 572-8.
