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space and attention with matter which would otherwise be quite foreign to the subject in hand. Their remarks extend over a considerable portion of the Chalukya genealogy; but it will suffice for me to confine myself here to the first three generations.
As originally given by Sir Walter Elliot in his paper On Hindu Inscriptions, first published at Jour. R. As. Soc., Vol. IV., p. 1, and afterwards reprinted with corrections and emendations at Madr. Jour. Lit. and Sc., Vol. VII., p. 193, the genealogy commences with,
Jayasimha I.
Raņaråga, or (?) Rajasimha.
Pulakéki I.
(Saka 411.) At a later period, in his second paper on Numismatic Gleanings at Madr. Jour. Lit. and So., New Series, Vol. IV., p. 75, he inserted another step, and commenced the genealogy with,
Jayasimha I., or Vijayaditya I.
His son and successor was named Pula kesi; and his son was Vijay aditya. A copper śásana, recording a grant made by Pulak 8 s'i which bears date Saka 411 or A.D. 489, is extant in the British Museum." There is a mistake here in the fifth sentence, which makes Pulak ési the son of Ranaraga, and Vijayaditya the son of Pula ke 6 1. The genealogy represents correctly the order of succession that was intended.
Starting with this second genealogy of Sir Walter Elliot, including A.D. 489 as the date of Pulike si I.; assuming that the Jayasimha of the Kaira grant, and the Jayasimha of Sir Walter Elliot, were one and the same person; interpreting the date of the Kaira grant as Vikrama-Samvat 394, the consequence of which was that, "the date of this grant being A.D. 338, a period of about two hundred years intervenes between Jayasinha and the grant of Pula kesi in A.D. 489, and to fill up this period Sir Walter Elliot gives only three names, Pulak os i standing fourth in the list"; and making the assumption, quito opposed to fact except in the case of a few documents which show their own want of value, that "the loose and varying nature of the genealogies in these grants" is sneh that "it would seem, indeed, that the word 'son' meant nothing more than descendant' in many cases, and that the writers, either from ignoranco or from utter indifference to the truth, frequently confined themselves to the recital of some of the more prominent and best-remembered names", and, again, that "the order of the names is sometimes found inverted, and other discrepancies are met with which show that the Chåluky&s were but poorly informed about the history of their line" ;-Prof. Dowson deduces the following genealogy,
Jayasimha I., or Vijayaditya I.
Ranarâga, Rajasiṁha, or Vishộuvardhana I.
Vijayaditya II.
Pulakési I.
(Saka 411.) And in the same paper he gives the following narrative :-* Previous to the arrival of the first haluky a in the Dekkan, the Pal lavas were the dominant race. In the reign of Trilôchan a-Palla va, an invading army, headed by Jayasimha, surnamed Vijayaditya, of the Chalu k ya-kula, crossed the Nerbudda, but failed to secure a permanent footing. Jayasimha seems to have lost his life in the attempt; for, his queen, then pregnant, is described as flying after his death, and taking refuge with a Brahman called Vishnu-S ô mayâji, in whose house she gave birth to a son named RAjasimha, who subsequently assumed the titles of Raņaråga and Vishnuvardhana. On attaining to man's estate, he renewed the contést with the Pallava s, in which he was finally successful, cementing his power by a marriage with a princess of that race, and transmitting the kingdom thus founded to his posterity.
Buddhavarma
Vijayaraja (A.D. 338)
Rajasimha, Ranaraga, or Vishnuvardhana I.
Vijayâditya II.
Pulakési I. (A.D. 489.) Starting with the same second genealogy of
