The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.189.3

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and it may be noted that, unless it introduces any fresh names, the result of it, taken in connection with the Nāgamangala grant, would be that Śrīpurusha-Muttarasa, reigned for seventy-eight years.—Another record in the same book, No. Nj. 110, an inscription on stone at Kūḍḷapura, purports to connect a date in the *Subhakṛit saṁvatsara*, *Ś.-S.* 25 expired, = A. D. 103-104, with Koṅgaṇivarman, the alleged founder of the Western Gaṅga dynasty, who is apparently mentioned in the record as *prathama-Gaṅga*, "the first Gaṅga;" but the passage occurs as part of a record of A. D. 1148, and is only based on some spurious grant or archive; it does not purport to be a synchronous record of the king to whom it refers. As regards this date, Mr. Rice, who has hitherto so implicitly accepted the spurious Gaṅga records, says (*loc. cit.* Introd. p. 1)—"Without corroboration from other sources, however, this can hardly be accepted as deciding the matter, especially as the only other document which professes to give his date, namely, the Tamil chronicle called *Koṅguḍēśa-Rājākkaḷ*, places his reign in *Śaka* 111 (A.D. 189)." With regard to the Gaṭṭavāḍi inscription, No. 1 above, Mr. Rice (*loc. cit.* pp. 1, 2) "would be disposed to alter the 111, though it is given in words as well as in figures, to 711: "the number of the hundreds may have been left out in the words, and a thil to the 1 "would make 7 in the figures." And in connection with the Tagaḍūr grant, No. 2 above, he says (*loc.