The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.158

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A good deal is now known about certain Gaṅga or Gâṅga kings of Kalinganagara, which is the modern Kalingapatam, on the east coast, in the Gañjâm District, Madras Presidency. Thus, we have the Achyutapuram grant of the Mahârâja Indravarman, also called Râjasimha, dated in the eighty-seventh year of some unspecified era, and attributable approximately to the seventh century A. D.,¹ the Parlâ-Kimeḍi grant of the same person, dated in the ninety-first year,³ the Chicacole grants of a Mahârâja of the same name, Indravarman, dated in the years 128 and 146, and connected closely with the preceding,³ the Chicacole grant of the Mahârâja Dêvêndravarman, son of Gunârṇava, dated in the hundred and eighty-third year of an unspecified era which is doubtless identical with that in which the preceding four grants are dated;⁴ the Vizagapatam grant of Dêvêndravarman, son of the Mahârâja Anantavarman, dated in the two hundred and fifty-fourth year of an unspecified era which may fairly be taken to be identical with the era used in the preceding five grants;⁵ the Chicacole grant of another Dêvêndravarman, son of the Mahârâja Anantavarman; dated in the fifty-first year of the Gâṅgêya race;⁶ the Alamanda grant of Anantavarman, son of the Mahârâja Râjêndravarman, dated in the three hundred and fourth year of the Gâṅgêya race;⁷ the Chicacole grant of Satyavarman, son of the Mahârâja Dêvêndravarman, dated in the three hundred and fifty-first year of the Gâṅgêya race;⁸ the Parlâ-Kimeḍi grant, not dated, of a king named Vajrahasta,⁹ and, finally, the Vizagapatam grants of king Anantavarma-Chôḍagaṅgadêva,¹⁰ which record the date of his coronation in A. D. 1078, and give a long genealogy going back to about the beginning of the eighth century A. D., at which time, it is said, a certain Kôlâhala built the town of Kôlâhalapura in the Gaṅgavâḍi province: this place is, as remarked by Mr. Rice,¹¹ the modern Kôlâr,¹² the chief town of the Kôlâr District in the east of Mysore: in the numerous inscriptions at the temple of Kôlâramma at Kôlâr itself, the name occurs in the form of Kuvalâla;¹ and other epigraphic forms of the name are Kovalâl and Kôlâla.