History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c35.s9.1

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The third feudatory family which we have to notice is that of the Kadambas of Hangal. They were an old Maratha family, as old as the Raṭṭas or Rāshṭrikas of Aśoka, being descended from the Kadambas, the contemporaries of the early Chālukyas whose Mānavya gotra and Haritiputravaṁśa they always copied or used in their inscriptions, being of the same stock probably and ruled in Banavāsi. The present Kadambas (the form Kadamba is also often used) called themselves lords of the town of Banavāsi and sometimes ruled over that part also; but their present position was in Hangal 500 (Hannugal of insriptions) a Taluka of the Dharwar District. Their Lānchhana or crest was a lion and on their banner was Hanūmān. king of monkeys. They were worshippers of Vishṇu Madhukeśava of Jayantī or Banavasi town. We give a summary of the account of these Kadambas given by Dr. Fleet in Bombay Gazetteer Vol. I part II (p. 559 to 563).