History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c17.s3.40

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§200. The Kadambas from their official documents, beginning with Talagunda pillar inscription, style themselves as Hāritiputra Mānavyas.¹ Now we know that the Vanavāsi Andhras (the C h u ṭ u s) were Hāritiputra Mānavyas (§ 157 ff.). It seems to be certain that the Kadambas were descendants of the Chuṭu Sātakarṇis. By calling themselves Hāritiputra Mānavyas they mark their descent from the last Chuṭu Mānavya who was a Hāritiputra. The moment the first Kadamba king acquires Vanavāsi and Kuntala, the original seat of the Chuṭus, he ‘with a glad mind’ restores the old grant made by the Hāritiputra Śiva Skandavarman of the Mānavya gotra and records it on the very pillar set up by the Chuṭu king for the purpose of registering the gift of the same property, which had been attached to Maṭṭapaṭṭi² through the same Kauṇḍinya family. The grant was made a second time,