The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.350

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The Sanskrit charters are certainly all somewhat later than the preceding. And first among them we may place two copper-plate grants which give the genealogy shewn on the opposite page. The earlier of the two grants³ was issued by Vishṇugōpavarman, from a place named Palakkada or Palakkaḍa.⁴ The genealogy commences with Skandavarman I.: the title of *Mahārāja* is attached to his name, and to those of his son and grandson; and Vishṇugōpavarman uses the title of *Yuvamahārāja*.⁵ The charter, which was addressed to the villagers of Uruvapalli in the Muṇḍarāshṭra country, is dated in the eleventh year of a *Mahārāja* Siṁhavarman (I.), whose position in the family is not stated, but who was probably an elder brother of Vishṇugōpavarman.⁶ The grantor was Vishṇugōpavarman himself.