The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.388.1

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The information given by the Kûram grant has now been amplified by a copper-plate grant from Kaśâkûḍi, near Karikal, in the Tanjore District, Madras Presidency.¹ This record repeats the Purâṇic genealogy which has been mentioned on page 317 above; and, after the eponymous Pallava, it places an Aśôkavarman, who, as Dr. Hultzsch remarks, "can scarcely be considered a historical person, but appears to be a modification of the Buddhist king Aśôka." After him, it says, there ruled and passed away a number of other Pallava kings, of whom it names Skandavarman, Kalindavarman, Kânagôpa, Vishṇugôpa, Vîra-Kûrcha, Vîrasimha, Simhavarman, and Vishṇusimha: some of these names have already occurred in the preceding pages; but the present mention of them does not help to settle the relative order of the charters from which they have come to light: it would appear that, when the present record was drawn up, the names of these previous kings were remembered, but nothing definite was known about them, and that the order of their succession, and their relation to each other and to the subsequent line of kings mentioned in the record, had been forgotten. In the connected line of kings, the record first mentions Simhavishṇu, apparently known also as Avanisimha, who, it says, defeated the Malaya, Kaḷabhra, Mâlava, Chôḷa, Pâṇḍya, Simhaḷa, and Kêraḷa kings.