The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.151

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of this family, commencing with the name of Nanna, shew that the Raṭṭa chieftains had the hereditary title of *Lattalūr*- or *Lattanūr-puravar-adhīśvara*, "supreme lord of Lattalūr or Lattanūr, the best of towns," intended to commemorate their original home;¹ that they were heralded in public by the sounds of the musical instrument called *trivali*;² that they had the *sindūra-lāñchhana*, or elephant-crest;³ and that they carried the *suvarṇa-Garuda-dhvaja*, or banner of a golden Garuḍa, which device, instead of the crest according to the more usual custom, appears on the seal of the only Raṭṭa copper-plate charter that has as yet come to light.⁴