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153 vances. The identity of this general is uncertain ; but if the supposition of the late Mr. Narasimhacarya that the Māghanandi mentioned here was perhaps the sage of that name mentioned in a Sravana Belgoļa record dated A. D. 1283, is accepted, then, we may place Madhava Dandanāyaka in the reign of king Narasimha III (A.D. 1254-A.D. 1291).1
In the reign of the last great Hoysala ruler Vīra Ballāļa III, we have a prominent Jaina general named Kēteya Daņpanāyaka. He is mentioned as a Great Minister, General, and Sarvādhikāri in A. D. 1332 under that Hoysala ruler. He made in that year a grant of the excise revenue of Kondatur and another village the name of which is effaced in the inscription, for the basadi of Kolugāņa in Edenād.2
1. M. A. R. for 1916, p. 83; E. C. V, Hn. 61, pp. 17-18; Rice, My & Coorg., p. 97. Whether this Mādhava Dandanāyaka was the same as his namesake, who was the brother of Rāja Jai Bhattayya Nāyaka mentioned in a record of A.D. 1218 (Hn. 61 op. cit.) is uncertain.
2. E. C. IV, Ch. 182, p. 22.
