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enemies, named Prithivipati, the leader line, who, according to a stone inscription at of kings, who bore in battle the blows struck Lakshmêswar published by him, made a grant by the enemies of the king of the Abhiras. in Saka 890, is there described as the younger From him, who was the royal lion (RAjasimha) brother of Harivarma, who, according of the overflowing Ganga race, and seized to a copper-plate inscription also published by his royal enemies with his claws in battle, a him', made a grant in Saka 169. From which certain king received consecration," &o. Mr. Fleet draws the conclusion :-" There can
We hence learn that the following was the be no doubt whatever that the dates of the succession of the Ganga kings from $iva- copper-plate grants are spurious, and that the mara, who has been assigned to A.D. 668, date of the Lakshmèśwar stone tablet inscripeach being the son of his predocessor :
tion is the true one for the third generation Siva måra.
from the founder of the dynasty." We now Pșithu yaśâ, Pșithivipati, protec- know that there was a Marasimha among
teda refugee from A môg havarsha, the Ganga kings long before the one who conquered the Pândy a king Varagu- made the Lakshmeswar grant; and as for the ņa. (Marasimha.)
genealogy there given it is clearly not comKèsar , Prithivipati, (P Simha plete, while the expression tasyánujal, if meant
Nandi), restored the Baņa dynasty. literally, is, in the face of the superior evidence According to the Hosûr and Nagamangala we have, simply wrong. plates, Siva mâra also had the names The Ganga history is not indeed clear of Nava-kama and Kongani, and was the all donbts-of what ancient line can this be younger brother of Śr 1-Vallabha. His son said P-but the main facts as deduced by me is not named, but his grandson was Bhima- seem to be fairly attested and entitled to kôpa, who would thus be the same as Mâra acceptance. There are, I may add, Ganga Biha. Ho was followed by Raja-K 8. stone inscriptions in Mysore yet unpublished. Bar 1, the same doubtless as Kesari above. At Sivárpațna, which seems to have been called Then comes the donor, Sri-Purusha or Mendimangala, there are two grants by SriPrithu vi Kongai, whose relationship is
Purusha, one dated in the 28th year of his not stated, but who began to reign in 727 and reign, the other undated. There is another made the grants respectively in 763 and 777. at Chikmagalur, dated in the 6th year after These accounts, therefore, seem consistent with Madhava Maharajadhiraja had enone another, and with probability. Were the feoffed Racha-Malla. 12 dates of Amogha-varsha, who must have The B&ņa dynasty is one of which nothing been & Ratta king, and of Varaguņa has hitherto been known beyond what was the Påndy a king, known, they would have published by me" in connection with the only helped to fix the chronology.
two inscriptions discovered of theirs, at GulgânIn taking exception to the history of the pode. But those now brought to light introGanga dynasty published by me, as gathered duce us to a long and interesting account, from inscriptions which had come into my which, while it bears out the details I had hands and other sources, and which is borne gathered from one or two mengre references, out by the present fresh evidence, the main adds considerably to our knowledge of the ground upon which Mr. Fleet rests his objec- early history of Maisur. tions is that Marasimha of the Gang & The grant by Vikramaditya contains
· Mys. Ins., pp. 284, 287. For fac-similes see Madras Journal for 1878, p. 142, and Ind. Ant. vol. II, p. 158.
Perhaps Kakka I, if we may rely on the hypothesis suggested by me that the peouliar Ratta titles ending in urshe were in constant relation with certain names. Mr. Fleet at first opposed this idea (nee vol. XII, p. 112), but has since allowed that "there is of course a good deal of force in it," (see vol. XII, p. 223).
Mye. Ins., Intro., p. xl.
The Dynasties of the Kanares Districts of the Bombay Providency, p. 11; reprinted in Ind. Ant., vol. XII, p. iii.
• Ind. Ant. vol. VII, p. 101. * Id. vol. VIII, p. 214.
• This may be indionted by the word apicha, which is similarly used to show a break in the narrative in l. 18 and again in l. 92 ; also by the indefinite way in which the account of Marasimha begins with delt.
Brf Gongun Maharija Srl-Purisha prithwf rajya vijaya nahuatara ippadi entaneyou.
10 #rf-Purusha Mahardjaru prithwvl rdjya goyo. u Racha-Mallange vaftan gathid Aganoya varaha. 1 Mys. In., Intro., p. xlix ; Ind. Ant. vol. X, p. 38.
