Book Title: Studies in South Indian Jainism
Author(s): M S Ramaswami Ayyangar, B Seshagiri Rao
Publisher: M S Ramaswami Ayyangar

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________________ 112, ANDHRA KARNATA AINISM. of confidence. But yet, I shall urge in this chapter just the tendency of some facts con nected with its irleresting dynasty of rulers. · called by epigraphists, "the Eastern Gangas of Kalinga", to indicate the possibility of the Kalinga kingdom also having been under the influence of a Canarese dynasty at about the same time that the neighbouring Vengi kingdom (with its capital at Rajahmundry) was enjoying the benefits of the benevolent rule of the Eastern Chalukyas. The Kallurgudda stone Insn. (sh. 4 Ep. Car.) S.S. 112-A.D. 1190 describes.Ganganvayavataranam and the following is a summary of it (Ep. Car. Vol. VII, Part (1). Intn. p. 14):-“ In. Ayodyapura was born the head-jewel of the Iks hvāku race, Harischandra (according to.sh. 10, the son of Dhananjaya, Capturer of Kánya: kubja and Gandhari Dēvi) who tuled in peace for a long time. His son was Bharata, whose wife was Vijaya Maha Dēvi. When the longing of pregnancy arose in her, she went to bathe in the Ganges and recovered her brightness. In due time she bore : a son, who from the aboye circumstance was named Ganga Datta. Ile in turn had a Bharata, whose son was again Ganga Datta, whose son was Harischandra. His son was another Bharata, whose son was also Ganga Datta. While the Ganga line was thus continuing, there arose in it a king named Vishnugupta who gained an Empire and ruled from

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