Later Gangas Mandali Thousand

Author(s): Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak

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Chapter 2
Origin and Genealogy
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ven though the Mandalināḍ was started in about C.E. 350, after the mid fourth century, there is a lull period of five centuries, upto the beginning of tenth century. But the Mandali-sahasra had continued uninterrupted as a part of the Gangavāḍi96,000. Owing to the non-availability of charters of the period of four centuries from fifth to tenth, nothing factual can be said about who succeeded whom apropos of Mandalināḍ. Albeit, it is obvious that the Gangas who ruled Gangavāḍi also administered the Mandali territory, as it was included in the Gangavāḍi. There is a reference to the NanniyaGanga in one of epigraphs of ninth century (IWG: No. 91: C. 9th cent p. 293, EC. XII (BLR) TP. 55). It is probable that the person Nanniya Ganga of this inscription being a chief of the Mandalināḍ. A circumstantial evidence in support of this conjecture is