The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c17.s5.82

v1.c17.s5.82

The above list is also found in two Vizagapatam grants of Coḍagaṅga, dated in Ś. 1003 and 1057.² A comparison of the two lists would show that while in the first the *praśastikāra* tries to trace the genealogy of the dynasty from the beginning of things, the second traces it from Guṇamahārṇava, who may have been the real founder of this branch of the Gaṅgas. Possibly the latter is to be identified with Guṇārṇava II, the 7th prince of the first list. There is some amount of agreement in the names of the kings in the two lists who follow this prince. But there are the following discrepancies :—³ (*i*) List II shows that Guṇamahārṇava-Guṇārṇava of list I had a son named Vajrahasta who reigned for 44 years; but list I omits his name, evidently through an oversight of the officer who drafted the inscription. For the fifth king in the 1st list is called Vajrahasta II and the 13th king Vajrahasta IV. (*ii*) List I gives the names of two kings, Jitāṅkuśa and Kaliṅgalāṅkuśa (his brother's son), who are said to have preceded Guṇḍama I and to have reigned for 15 and 12 years respectively, but these names are omitted in list II. (*iii*) The reigns of Guṇḍama I and that of (his brother) Kāmārṇava IV are stated in list I to be 7 and 25 years, while list II has the figures 3 and 35 instead. (*iv*) Finally list I makes Vajrahasta V the son of Madhu-Kāmārṇava VI, while the 2nd list states that Vajrahasta was born from Kāmārṇava, the eldest son of Vajrahasta.