The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.195

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if the Kaḍab grant may be relied on, there was a certain Châkirâja, who was governing or reigning over the entire Gaṅga province in A. D. 813.¹ This, however, seems very doubtful. And probably the next authentic names, after those of Śrîpurusha-Muttarasa and Śivamâra, are those of Nitimârga-Koṅguṇivarma-Permanadi,² with the title of *Mahârâjâdhirâja*,³ and styled "supreme lord of the town of Kovalâla" and "lord of the mountain Nandagiri," and of his son Satyavâkya-Permanadi, whose existence is proved by a stone inscription from Doddahundi in Mysore:⁴ the record, which mentions the death of this Nitimârga-Koṅguṇivarma-Permanadi, is not dated; but it was written at any rate not long after A. D. 804. Somewhere about this time, the Eastern Chalukya king Narêndramṛigarâja-Vijayâditya II. (A. D. 799 to 843), waged war for twelve years with the Gaṅgas and the Râshṭrakûṭas;⁵ and, later on, his grandson Guṇaka-Vijayâditya III. (A. D. 844 to 888), being "challenged" by the Râshṭrakûṭas, conquered the Gaṅgas.⁶ The passages, however, which mention this, give no particular names. And the next individual name is that of Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-Râjamalla-Permanadi, mentioned in an inscription at Husukûru in Mysore;⁷ with the date of Śaka-Saṃvat 792 (expired), = A. D. 870-71; the record also mentions a certain Bûtaraśa, who was governing the Koṅgaḷnâḍ and Pûṇaḍ districts as *Yuvarâja*. With this person we have perhaps to identify the Satyavâkya-Koṅguṇivarma-Permanadi, in respect of whom an inscription at Kiggaṭnâḍ, in Coorg,⁸ cites Śaka-Saṃvat 809 (expired), with a data in the month Phâlguna (Feb.-March), falling in A. D. 888, as his eighteenth year, and whose first year, therefore, was Ś.-S. 792 (expired), = A. D. 870-71. Next after this comes another Nitimârga-Koṅguṇivarma-Permanadi, for whom an inscription at Kûḷagere, in