Book Title: Indian Antiquary Vol 62
Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications
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· THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
A JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH.
VOLUME LXII-1933
DYNASTIC CONTINUITY IN VIJAYANAGARA HISTORY.
BY B. A. SALETORE, PE.D. (LOND.). In the following paper I shall make an attempt to trace the relationship between the Aravidu, Tuluva, SAļuva and Sangama dynasties which ruled over the Vijayanagara Empire, and the connection between the last one and the Hoysala House. We are not concerned here with the question whether or not the founders of Vijayanagara were of Karnataka or Telugu origin.
1. Hoysala-Sangama Continulty. In the year of their accession to power the five sons of Sangama gave public demonstration to their relationship with the royal family that preceded them in supremacy in Southern India, in an epigraph dated 1346 A.D., in which they recorded their pilgrimage to the famous Sringeri matha. Among other interesting facts mentioned in this important inscription, we find Ballappa DamnAyaka given the epithet of aligo or son-in-law. An inquiry into the antooedents of this person settlos once for all the question of the relationship of the sons of Sangama with the rulers of the Hoysala-vanba. But in tracing the lineage of Vallappa or Baliappa Dannayaka one cannot help entering into a digression in order to examine the validity of a statement made by the Rev. Fr. Herry Heras, who writes in his Beginnings of Vijayanagara History thus about Vallappa -" This Vallapa-dannayaka, the son of the great minister of Ballala ITI, who became the great minister in the palace of the said Emperor, whose nephew he was on his mother's side, had married a daughter of Harihara I, as he is callod Harihara's Aliya ; and from this marriage we know of a son named Tanan."
The epigraphs prove tha: Vallappa was the aliya of Harihara I., but do not suggest in the least that he was the nephew of BallAla" on his mother's side." The reason why Fr. Heras has arrived at an untenable conclusion is probably due to the fact that he has confounded two persons who bore almost the same name and hold almost the same office. These were Dadiya Somaya (or, as he was also called, Someya) and Mayduna Somaya.
The following considerations will invalidate any such identification based on a mere similarity in names
(a) The titles or birudas which the two asumed, and
(6) Their relative position in the history of the times. (a) The birudas of Mayduna (i.e., sister's husband) Somaya were the following: Champion over princes who are very fond of their bodies'; champion over princes who, having made a gift to-day, say “No” tomorrow'; champion over princes wko, having made a gift, brood on it.'
He is also called a Daņņayaka..
Dadiya Somaya is styled a Dannayaka but is more commonly called a pradhana (minister) and a mand-pradhana.
1 Epigraphia Oarnatica, VI, Sg. 1, p. 92, Text, p. 348. 3 Hers, The Beginninge of Vijayanagara History, p. 92. 3 Herba, Ibid., pp. 90-91. . . Mysore Archological Report for 1912-18, p. 40. 6 Ep. Oar., X, Mr. 28, p. 163. 6 Ibid., Ht. 43, p. 92, Text, p. 206. 1 Ibid., Ht. 75, Text, pp. 45,
