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how much longer we do not know. Being the Vardhana. On attaining to man's estate he grandson of his predecessor, this king mast have renewed the contest with the Palla vas, in come to the throne at an early age, and hence which he was finally successful, cementing his there is nothing improbable in the duration as power by a marriage with a princess of that signed to his reign. The thing to be noticed race, and transmitting the kingdom thus founded is the absence of the minute details regarding to his posterity." the date of the donation, which are usually The rivalry, however, was not thus ended. found in inscriptions. The name of the cycle For I have a Chaluky a inscription in which year is not given, nor the day of the month or the first Vikram å ditya is stated to week, nor any astronomical conjunction. But have become the possessor of Kanchipurat notwithstanding the absence of these particu. by the conquest of Pallava Pati, whose lars the date of the grant accords perfectly insults threatened destruction to the dynasty with what we know of the history of this king resembling in purity the rays of the moon," i.e.
We are next introduced to a province named the Cháluk yas, who were of the soma Nirggunda. This I conceive to be the name vansa or lunar line. that occurs in connection with one of the wit
The next king, Vinayaditya Satyásnesses to the Merkara plates, but which, from his
raya, who began to reign A.D. 680, is described being there described as a seryant, I conjectured
as having "destroyed the power of Traimight mean nirganta, the village waterman.
rajya Pallava in the same manner as the The position of Nirggunda I do not know.
heavenly general of Blendra Sekhara | smote Wherever it may have been, the tributary king
down the excessively-grown might of the of the region had married the grand-daughter
Daityas." Previously to this, however, we find of the Palla vâdhirâjâ. I am not aware
from the present inscription that Pallaventhat anything definite has been published as to
dra Narapati had suffered defeat from the chronology and succession of the Pallava Raj A sri Vallabhák hy & of the kings. The following are a few scattered
Kongu line. notices of the dynasty.
I have also met with two stone inscriptions of Sir Walter Elliot says t: “Previous to the
the Palla vas, but so worn from age as to be arrival of the first Chålukya in the Dakhan
almost illegible. On one of them the name Nothe Pallevas were the dominant race. In
lambadhi Raja has been doubtfully made the reign of Trilochana Palla va an in
out. vading army, headed by Jaya Sinha, sur
The character in which the inscription now named Vijayaditya, of the Châluk ya.
translated is engraved bears much resemblance kula, crossed the Nerbudda but failed to
to that found in the Buddhist stupa of Amaraobtain a permanent footing. Jaya Sinha
vati with the addition of the characteristic seems to have lost his life in the attempt, for
letters of the Hala Kannada or Ancient Kanahis queen, then pregnant, is described as
rese, namely, the vowels, the four forms of l and flying after his death and taking refuge with
two forms of r. These are denoted in the transBrahman called Vishnu Somayaji, in literation thus - whose house she gave birth to a son named Raja Sinha, who subsequently assumed
r=r= 0;pi =* = b; r = 0; 1= = 0; the titles of Rana RÂya and Vishnu 1!= = ;=ca; and L = .
II. TRANSLITERATION [I.] Svasti jitam bhagavatå gata ghana gaganabhena Padmanabhena. Srimaj Jahnaveya kula malá vyomåvabhâsana bhaskaraḥ sva khadgayka prahâra khandita mahafila stambha labdha bala parákra
moddraņa
. Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 365, note T.
+ Numismatic Gleanings,' Madras Jour. of Lit. and Sc., N. 8., vol. IV. pp. 78, 79, quoted Jowr. R. As.. Soc., New Series, vol. I. p. 251. 1 Conjeveram, 8. of Madras.
Kumaraswami.
Siva.
