The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.189.1

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¹ For the proof of this, see my remarks in *Epigraphia Indica*, Vol. III: pp. 159 to 176; the matter is too long to be repeated here.—Spurious records are by no means uncommon, and have been met with in all parts of India. But Mysore, with some neighbouring localities, has been especially productive of them, including some of the most bare-faced specimens, purporting to be even nearly five thousand years old. Out of twenty-six records of this nature enumerated by me on page 172 f., note 6, in my remarks referred to above, thirteen (including the nine Western Gaṅga grants which purport to belong to the earlier period of the family) are from Mysore. And Mr. Rice's *Inscriptions in Mysore*; Part I., supplies the following additional instances:—(1) No. Nj. 199, an inscription on stone at Gaṭṭavāḍi; this does not actually mention the Gaṅgas; but it purports to be dated in the reign of a certain Eṛeha-Vemmaḍi, in the *Aṅgiras saṁvatsara*, coupled with *Śaka-Saṁvat* 111 by mistake for 114 expired or 115 current, = A.D. 192-93: a lithograph is given, and the characters shew that the record belongs to the ninth or tenth century A. D. (2) No. Nj. 122, a copper-plate grant at Tagaḍūr; this purports to be dated in the time of the Western Gaṅga king Harivarman, in the *Vibhava saṁvatsara*, coupled with *Ś.-S.* 188 expired by mistake for 170 expired, = A.D. 248-249 (or for any other year with which *Vibhava* may have coincided): a lithograph is given;