The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.204.1

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Mysore,¹ supplies the date of Saka-Samvat 831 (expired), = A. D. 909-910. We know that shortly after this time there was a king named Ereyappa. We may, therefore, place next an inscription at Iggali, in Mysore,² which mentions another Satyavakya-Kongunivarma-Permanadi and Ereyappa, and records occurrences that took place in the twenty-second year of this Satyavakya, i. e. not earlier than A. D. 930-31, as shewn by the recorded date of the preceding Nitimarga. This Satyavakya must have been immediately succeeded, and soon after that date, by Ereyappa, whom the Begur inscription, from Mysore, mentions as reigning over the Gangavadi province, and fighting with a certain Vira-Mahendra.³ Ereyappa was succeeded by his son Rachamalla. From an inscription at Atakur, in Mysore,⁴ we learn that Rachamalla was attacked and killed by Satyavakya-Kongunivarma-Permanadi-Butuga or Butayya, who had the birudas or secondary names of Nanniya-Ganga, "the truthful Ganga," Jayad-uttaramga, "the arch of victory," Ganga-Gangeya, "a very Karttikeya, Karna, or Bhishma, among the Gangas," and Ganga-Narayana, "a very god Vishnu among the Gangas," and who thereby acquired the Gangavadi province; this occurred in or shortly before A. D. 940. An inscription at Hebbal, in the Dharwar District,⁵ tells us that (between A. D.