The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c26.17

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III. *Rāja Gautamīputra Vilivāyakura* [II]. The restrikings permit of no doubt about the serial order of these kings, but according to one view they were merely local governors and viceroys, and according to another, which I adopted definitely in earlier publications, they were members of the main dynasty. If the latter view be correct, the last named, Vilivāyakura II, must be king No. 23, the Gautamīputra of the Purāṇas. Professor D. R. Bhandarkar, however, rejects the identification of Vilivāyakura II with Gautamīputra, and regards him as belonging to a different line, which ruled separately in the country round Kolhāpur. According to the same authority, he or one of his predecessors was a contemporary of Pulumāyi II (*Ind. Ant.*, vol. xlix (1920), pp. 30–4). Another question is whether the strange word Vilivāyakura, which is probably either Telugu or Kanarese, should be regarded as a title or a proper name. In the previous edition of this work, the author inclined to the view that Vilivāyakura must be regarded as a name. The point is discussed by D. R. Bhandarkar in ‘Dekkan of the Sātavāhana Period’ (*Ind. Ant.* xlix (1920), pp. 31–4), and in my opinion still awaits a final solution.