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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1879.
Vira Noņa mba must have been almost conjectured to have been its subjects, and this next to the founder in descent. He is de- opinion is satisfactorily borne ont by the title of scribed as the sun of the Chalu kya kula, "chief (or original) Gang avâ dikara" the conqueror of the elephant-riding Bhaga assumed by Maro Setti, as this form of the datta kings, the terror of Kalinga and name supplies the necessary link connecting Konkaņa, "the thruster out of Agva pati Gaiga và di with Ga nga dikâra. Raya, the slayer of Gajapati Raya, and As regards Kilva R â ya I find an inscripthe smiter on the head of Nara pati Raya", tion of the 12th century at Davangere speaks whoever these three sovereigns, to whom one so of the haleya bidu, or old ruins, of the royal often hears allusions, may have been,-and as city Hiriya Betaru, in the kingdom of the ruling in peace and security at Kalyanapura. warrior Kilvog-odeyarasa Deva. Betur is close In the course of a victorious expedition to the to DÂvangere, a little to the west of Harihara on south he encamped at the village of Henjara, and the Tungabhadra. there in the Saka year 366, the year Târana, The name Vira No namba calls for some made the gifts recorded in the grant. The re- remarks. The whole of the north of Maisûr, cipient was Mâro Setti, múlika Gangarádikára, now the Chitaldrug District, formed from an and radda byavahári of the Châluky a s, early period, as we know from numerous ina native of Haluhảdi in Kundunad, situated in scriptions, a province called the Noņa mbathe Ganga v â di Ninety-six Thousand. In a vadi or Nolam ba và di Thirty-two Thoubattle which took place at Henjara he distinguish sand. The considerable body of Noņamba or ed himself by cutting through the horse and Nonaba raiyats I suppose to have been its bringing down Kilva Raya. For this exploit he subjects, just as the Gangadikara raiyats were was rewarded with various honours and a landed of Gangav å di. Acknowledged descendants estate near his native place, which, from the of the hereditary chief of the Noņaba Wokligas mention of Kadabada lola, I conjecture was on are still to be found near Gubbi, which is close the river Shimsha,' in the neighbourhood of to Kadaba, and claims to have been founded by Kadaba. The grant is attested by four witnesses, their ancestor. The name also occurs in other one from Talakadu, the others from the boundary connections. An inscription at Nandi of perhaps villages, and is approved by the king, who the 8th century gives us Nolam badhiraja signs himself Ari-raya-mastaka-tala-prahári as the name of a Pallava king; while, coming (smiter on the head of hostile kings').
still nearer, an inscription at Anantapur of A.D. The title vadda byavahari occurs in several of 1079 gives the titles of Jaya Simba, the younger the Maisûr inscriptions as that of an important brother of the Châluky a king Vikraofficer. Byavahári means "merchant, but of mâ ik a, who was appointed Governor of the radda no explanation is forthcoming. It is often Bana vase Twelve Thousand, and who remet with in the phrase vadda rúvula, which was belled against him, as Trayalokya Malla Vira the name of some main head of the public taxes, Noļamba Pallava Permmånadi Jaya Singha and is generally mentioned along with the hej- Deva. junka, the principal customs dues. An inscription In order to exhibit the correspondence of at Sampige, near Kadaba, of the 13th century, the present grant with those of the Begur, records a gift made there by a vadda Kuppagade, and Gauj agraharas, their byavahari.
respective contents are here given in parallel The Ninety-six Thousand province of Gan- columns. Those parts which are identical in ga và di I have identified, on abundant all are carried across the columns, only those evidence, as the southern half of Maisar. The parts in which they differ being shown sepalarge body of Ganga dikara raiyats I have rately.
* The Ganga kings of Southern Maisar had the ele. phant as their crest, and the Merkara plates (Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 363) describe Avinita as a Bhadatta. The Mah. blirata 'mentions Bhagadatta as a Yavana king: Bee Wilson's Works, vol. X. p. 51.
• The expression used in this place is obscure, but the
meaning mast be equivalent to this.
A tributary of the Kaveri. It is also called the Kadaba, the Kadamba, and the Shimshupa. • Vsk. Dev. Char. Introd. pp. 38, 43.
Of the Begur grant I have only a copy, given to me at the place. Of the other two I have photographs.
