The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.182.2

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351,—of Avinîta-Kongani, with dates in A. D. 454-55 and 466,—of Durvinîta-Kongani, with dates in A. D. 481-82 and 513-14,—and of Srîpurusha-Prithuvi-Kongani, with the dates of A. D. 762 and 776-77. And such supposed information as is derivable from them, from some other epigraphic records which have not yet been made available, and from a Tamil chronicle called Kongudêsa-Râjâkkal, has been compiled and published by Mr. Rice, with the result of a tolerably lengthy and circumstantial account, such as it is.⁷ But the charters in question are all spurious; the information given in them is absolutely unreliable; any similar statements, based on them or on the sources from which they were concocted, and included in later charters that may be genuine, are equally inadmissible; and the chronicle is absolutely worthless for any historical purposes.¹ Almost everything that has been written on the understanding that the records in question, and the chronicle, furnish authentic information, requires to be ignored and cancelled. And the general result is, that no individual Western Gaṅga names are as yet forthcoming for the early period with which this chapter specially deals; and we can treat here only of somewhat later times. Out of the names mentioned in the spurious charters, the first one which is certainly known to be authentic is that of the *Mahârâja* Srîpurusha-Prithuvî-Kongani, or, as he was more fully styled, Muttarasa-Srîpurusha-Prithuvî-Kongani.