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particulars of which are confirmed by this one, Raja Malla Deva he was called Kongaại Vsiddha. The Ganda Deva ................. present grant was made in the third year Râ cha Malla, Satya Vå kya of his reign, which, according to the calculations Kongani ...........
857-869 in connection with that one, gives us the year Permman adi, do.
869A.D. 481, and consisted of a gift to the Soma- Malla Deva II. ............... -878-894yaji Vása Sarmmana, a resident of Mah& sena- About this time the dynasty was overthrown pura. The particulars of the gift are totally in Maigur by the Cholas, and not long after illegible, and the conclusion is missing. There the Hoysal a Balla! as of Dorasamudra rose is no clue, therefore, to the situation of Mahâ- to power in this country. Of the inscriptions at senapura.
the foot of the statue of Gomateśvara at Sravana The description of the various kings corre- Belgola, one which precedes a Balla la grant sponds with that given in the chief grants already informs us that a Gañga Raja built the sutpublished. But with regard to Madhava II., talayam or enclosure. An inscription at Nir. Kongani II., and A vinita, or Kongaņi gunda, dated A.D. 1065, exhibits a GañgaIII. (as it now seems we should call him), fresh rasa still retaining the sounding titles of Koninformation is supplied, confirmatory of what was guli Varmma Dharmma Maharajadhiraja, but obtained from
the grant of A. D. 513 already
the grant of A. D. 513 already as a petty officer of the Hoysaļa Ballkļas, rulreferred to. Such are the Brahmanical revival ing the Arabela Seventy. About the same time under Madhava II., the coronation of Kon-the Hoysala king Ereya nga assumes the gani II. while an infant on his mother's lap, name of Vira Gañga; and U day aditya, and the romantic attachment which gave Avi- at first a general and then governor of Banavase nita his wife. Regarding this king it is under the Chalukya king Bhuvanaika further added that “though not matured in age, Malla, 1069-1076, calls himself a Gaiga, yet he was ripe in virtue," than which no ex- “lord of Kolâla pura (Kolår) and Nanpression could more fully confirm the accuracy dagiri (Nandidurga), and possessor of the of the calculations as to his age made in connec- elephant crest." tion with the grant above mentioned.
It thus appears that when the final catastrophe Our advancing knowledge regarding the occurred the family dispersed to the northreigns of the Gaiga kings of Maisur, as I wards. Some members of the same line, I think will now call them, may be summed up as it is evident, founded the Gangå vam á a follows:
dynasty of Orissa, acknowledged to have come Kongaại I. ............
from Karnataka, and also called Gajapatis or the Madhava I. ............
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elephant lords, which, commencing at the end of Hari Varmma ..........
-247-288- the 11th century, ruled that country till subdued Vishnu Gopa .......
-350- by the Muhammadans in 1534. Wilson shows ?Raja Malla .......
(Macken. Coll. vol. I. p. cxxxviii.) that the Madhava II.
founder was Ananta Varmma, "also called Kongani II. ...........
Kolabala, sovereign of Gangar & rhi.” Avinita, Kongani III. ... 478-513
This I am convinced should be "lord of KolaMushkara ....
hala (the same as Kolála-pura) and sovereign of Śri Vikrama.............
-539
Gañgav å di." Bhd Vikrama .......... 589
The province of Gangavadi, or the GanVilanda, Sri Vallabh â khya
gav å di Ninety-six Thousand, occurs so freNava Káma, Siva má ra,
quently in the Maisur inscriptions as to be as Ko nga ni IV. ......
-668
familiar to me as the name Maisur itself. I have ? Bhima Kopa
also determined its limits as embracing almos ? Raja Kesari ........
the whole of the southern half of Maisur westPrithivi Kongani ...... 727-777- wards. It formed a principal province under . Among the epitbeta applied to him is also nanniya
It is true that Wilgon seeks to bring them from the Galgd, 'Gang of truth,' which beurs in evident reference low country on the right bank of the Ganges, or Tamlak to the title of Satya Vakya given to one or two of these and Midnapur," but this is untenable in the face of the kings.
evidence we now have. Cf. Dr. Hunter's Orissa.
...A.D.
188-239
Kattalandlaalled
425
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