The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.239

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The fullest account of their traditional and actual genealogy is given in a stone inscription at Kargudari in the Hângal tâluka, dated in A.D. 1108;⁶ and, with a few additions from other similar records at Banawâsi⁷ and Hângal,⁸ and from other sources, the list is as shewn in the table on page 559 above: but the authenticity of it anterior to the name of Chaṭṭa, Chaṭṭaya, or Chaṭṭuga, appears very doubtful, there being too sudden a change to an ordinary style of nomenclature from an unbroken series of high-pretending names ending in varman; and there being also three detached names,⁹ — of a person named Mayûravarman, of Harikêsarin, and of Tôyimadêva, — with dates earlier than that which is forthcoming for the first person in the list with whom the records connect a date, — for which the list does not provide at all. Regarding Mayûravarman I., who heads the list, and who appears¹⁰ to have been represented by tradition as three-eyed and four-armed, the Kargudari record asserts that he was a son of the god Śiva and the Earth, and that he came from the Himâlayan regions, and, having brought from Ahichchhatra¹¹ eighteen Brâhmaṇs whom he established in the Kuntala country, thus acquired the government of the earth.¹ He seems to be identical with the Mukaṇṇa-Kadamba,— "the three-eyed Kadamba,"—of another record,² who is said to have brought twelve-thousand Brâhmaṇs, of thirty-two gôtras, purified by performing the agnihôtra-sacrifice, from the agrahâra of Ahichchhatra, and to have made, and established them in, the agrahâra of Sthâṇugûḍhapura, which is the modern Tâlgund in the Shimogga District, Mysore. And his name in the form of Mayûravarman is very possibly nothing but a reminiscence of that of the veritable Mayûraśarman, who established the early Kadamba power.³