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³ I have long ago (*e. g.*, *Ind. Ant.* Vol. XII. p. 292, note 10) abandoned my original identification of this Jayasiṁha with Jayasiṁha I., the father of Raṇarâga. 'I then (loc. cit.) proposed to identify him either with the Dharâśraya-Jayasimhavarman of the Nirpaṇ grant, who is represented as a younger brother of Pulikêśin II. ; or else with the Dharâśraya-Jayasimhavarman of the Nausârî and Balsâr grants, who was a younger brother of Vikramâditya I. The latter suggestion was afterwards adopted by Dr. Bhandarkar (*Early History of the Dekkan*, 1884, p. 42). But it is not tenable; for it would make Pulikêśin II. contemporaneous with a great-grandson, at a time when the latter was of sufficient age to have exercised feudatory authority. And as regards the former suggestion, though it has been endorsed by Dr. Bühler (*Ind. Ant.* Vol. XVII. p. 199), and though, if we accept the Nirpaṇ grant at least so far as proving that Pulikêśin II. really had a younger brother named Jayasiṁhavarman, there may be nothing in the datos to raise a substantial objection to the identification of that brother with the Jayasimharâja of the Kaira grant, still, if regard is paid to the generations, the Jayasiṁharâja of the Kaira grant may equally well be made contemporaneous with Pulikêśin I., and may be taken as a younger brother of that person, named after the grandfather Jayasiṁha I. Pending the acquisition of some distinct hint one way or the other, I think it is better to keep the three names given in the Kaira grant, in a place apart from the main line of the family.