Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c20.45

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²⁹ In an inscription at Gadag published by Dr Kielhorn (*Epigraphia Indica*, Vol. III, p. 219) Bhillama is represented as the son of Karṇa, who is said to be a brother of Amara-gângeya. In the many inscriptions of the Yâdava dynasty and in the Praśastis given in several books the name Karṇa does not occur even once. The Gadag inscription makes Mallugi the son of Sevaṇṇadeva, while in the Vratakhaṇḍa and the Paithan plates he is represented as the son of Siṅghaṇa, who according to the former authority was one of the successors of Seunachandra and was probably his younger son. The inscription is here opposed to two authorities which agree with each other. Hence this must be a mistake, and that makes it probable that the other is also a mistake. These suppositions are strengthened by the fact that the composer of the Gadag inscription does not mention a single particular fact with reference to any one of the princes, thus showing that he had no accurate knowledge of them. Such a merely conventional description is characteristic of a forged charter. I am, for these reasons, inclined to think that the Gadag grant published by Dr. Kielhorn is a forgery.