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96 / The Later Gangas : Mandali-Thousand
Mandalinad (Sh.96 C.E. 915 p. 106); Būtuga's crown queen was Candrobaļabba, daughter of Amoghavarşa Baddega (MAR 1919 pp. 21-24, 1WG: No. 120: C.E. 906, ibid No. 113, 9th century C.E.). With the evidence of these and other epigraphs the date of Būtuga-I may be fixed between C.E. 880-920. Inscription No. Sh. 65. of 1204 provides an interesting information for the epigraphists. An inscription, in the Jain temple of Kuntalapura in the Mandalināờ, containing wrong information was noticed by the Nemicandra Bhattārakadeva, then abbot of the diocese. He immediately brought it to the notice of the then ruling king, the samantas, and the local gāvundas. With the approval of the government and the public and in their presence, the preceptor got the mischevious Śilāśāsana (stone inscription) defaced and a new stone
śāsana written. Genealogy
Students of history know that fixing the first regnal year of the early Ganga kings, from the Kongaņivarma upto Durvinita, is a very difficult problem. Because of the bewilderingly conflicting dates given for the early Ganga kings, the dates vary and pose a challenge to the historians. This is the main reason for the differences found in the genealogy lists of the Gangas, so carefully prepared by the expert Gangalogists. Based on the list prepared by M.V. Krishna Rao, B. Sheik Ali, I.K. Sharma and others, I have given a genealogical sketch, which includes the genealogy of the Mandali Gangas.
Here again a problem crops up in fixing the succession of the four brothers, Ganganļpa and others. Unfortunately the inscription (Sh. 91.1112-13) is badly damaged exactly in the line containing required information. The line in question (line: 11) starts with an eulogy of the person, supposed to be the brother of either the king or his consort, and abruptly cuts at the spot where some letters with required details are lost. After that luckily the rest of the inscription is intact, in the fairly lengthy charter running into 59 lines.
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