The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.189.2

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and the characters, which are of much the same general style with those of the spurious Tanjore grant (*Ind. Ant.* Vol. VIII. p. 212) which purports to give a date in A. D. 248 for the same person, suggest the tenth century A. D. as the earliest possible period for the concoction of the record. (3) No. Md. 113, a copper-plate grant at Haḷḷegere (noticed by me in *Epigraphia Indica*, Vol. III. p. 174, note 4); this purports to be dated in the time of the Western Gaṅga king Śivamāra I., in the thirty-fourth year of his reign, *Ś.-S.* 635 expired, = A.D. 713-714: a lithograph is given; and, like some of the others, this record betrays itself by using the later and cursive form of the *kh* (in connection with the name of Viśvakarman, the alleged writer of this record, Mr. Rice again misrepresents what was said by Sir Walter Elliot; see *Epigraphia Indica*, Vol. III. p. 164, note 1). To these we have to add, also from Mysore, (4) a Suraḍhēnupura copper-plate grant (*Inscriptions in the Mysore District*, Part I., Introd. p. 3), which purports to be dated in the third year of the reign of Śivamāra II., in the *Sarvajit saṁvatsara*, *Ś.-S.* 729, expired, = A.D. 807-808: a lithograph of this grant is not available yet; but there is every reason to believe that the record will betray its spurious nature in the way in which the others do;