The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.182.3

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His existence is proved, not by the spurious grants, but by undeniably genuine but undated, inscriptions on stone at Talakâd, Sivâra, and Sivarapatna, in Mysore.¹ On general palæographic grounds, these records may be referred roughly to the eighth or ninth century A. D.; and one particular tell-tale character proves that they cannot have been engraved much after A. D. 804. It is, therefore, quite possible that the spurious Hosûr and Nâgamangala grants have hit off true dates for him, in A. D. 762 and 776-77,² though the person who concocted the Hosûr grant failed to compute the details of the date correctly. But all that can as yet be said with certainty about this Muttarasa-Srîpurusha-Prithuvî-Kongani or more shortly Srîpurusha-Muttarasa, is, that he was a reigning king, belonging, no doubt, to the Western Ganga lineage, and that, pending more precise discoveries, he may be placed in the period A. D. 750 to 850. There is, however, one name which may possibly be placed just before his. The spurious charters mention two persons named Sivamâra,—representing one of them as the father or grandfather, and the other as the son, of Srîpurusha-Muttarasa; and one of them, at Hallegere, purports to give for the first Sivamâra a date in A. D. 713, while another, at Suradhênupura,³ purports to give a date in A. D. 807-808 for the second Sivamâra.