The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.76

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most powerful and inveterate foes; coupled with a tradition of the later Kâdambas, that the founder of the Kadamba family was a certain Trinêtra or Trilôchana. But, in other respects, the account is a mere farrago, of vague legend and Purânic myths, of no authority. And the tenth century A. D.,—at about which time, all the great families of Southern India were looking up their pedigrees, and devising more or less fabulous genealogies,—is probably the period to which the invention of it is to be referred.¹ There are, indeed, in the early records, faint indications of some such ideas having been even then entertained: thus, a passage in the Mahâkûta pillar inscription describes Pulikêsin I. as descended from the god Hiranyagarbha (Brahman);² the Aihole inscription states that Jayasimha I. was preceded by many members of his family, in respect of whom, however, no further information of any kind is offered;³ and a passage which appears for the first time in the grants of Vinayâditya, describes his father, Vikramâditya I., as defeating the lord of the Pallavas, who had been the cause of the humiliation and destruction of the family (of the Chalukyas) which was as pure as the rays of the moon.⁴ These statements, however, are too vague to prove that anything had then been devised, at all approaching to the full and detailed accounts which are found in the records of the period after the restoration by Taila II.