The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.12

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putra, of the Andhrabhritya kings, and (see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXI, p. 227) to the Vâtsiputra, Gauptiputra, and Gârgiputra of one of the Bharaut inscriptions. The same metronymic, or a closely similar one, appears also in an early inscription in the Riwâ or Rêwâ State in Central India, which records the construction of a cave by Hâritiputra or Hâritiputra-Saunaka (Ind. Ant. Vol. IX, p. 121). And the early Kadambas also, and the Chalukyas, are represented as Hâritiputras.—As regards the word Hârita, if it is the name of a Brâhmanical gôtra or clan to which a royal family was affiliated (see the next note), that gôtra must be a later offshoot from the original Harita gôtra of Professor Max Müller's list (Sanskrit Literature, p. 383). But there was also a royal family of Aṅgirasa-Hâritas, who were descended from Ikshvâku, son of Manu, son of the Sun (see Wilson's Translation of the Vishnu-Purâna, Hall's edition, Vol. III, pp. 230, 231, 259, 280, and Muir's Original Sanskrit Texts, Vol. I, p. 225).