The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.5

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It is probably to the first or second century of the Christian era, that we must refer the earliest two inscriptions that have as yet been found in the country with which we are dealing; viz., one in a Prâkṛit dialect, engraved on the two edges of a large slate slab, on which there is sculptured a five-hooded cobra, in the court of the great temple at Banawâsi in North Kanara,³ and one, partly in Prâkṛit and partly in Sanskrit, on a pillar at ‘Malavaḷḷi’ in the Shikârpur tâluka, Mysore.⁴ They are of the time of a king named Hâritiputra-Sâtakarṇi,⁵ of the