FOUND AT VIJAYANAGAR. 



towards the close of his reign, his son and successor as Yuvaraja or Ceesar. The 

 traditional chronology makes Deva Raya the 4th, placing before him Vijaya, 

 whoisnot named in the inscriptions, and who inthepedigreefoUowsDEVARAYA. 



The 5th prince of the chronology is RXmadeva, who is followed by 

 ViRtjPAKSHA, and he by MallikXrjuna. The first does not appear in the 

 inscriptions, nor the two last in the pedigree. In the inscriptions also 

 MallikXrjuna precedes Virupaksha ; there can be little doubt, therefore 

 that the order of the chronology is incorrect. The pedigree has, for the 5th 

 prince, a Pundar Deva, who is not found in either of the other authorities, 

 and may be perhaps the same as Mallikarjuna or Virupaksha. The 

 name may possibly be intended for Praurha Deva, a prince of whom 

 many inscriptions are found from 1450 to 1466, and who is identified 

 chronologically therefore with Mallikarjuna. There is nothing in the 

 specification of dates that, militates against the identity of Mallikarjuna* 

 ViRtjPAKSHA, and Praurha Deva, as the inscriptions of all three are confined 

 between 1450 and 1479, in a period of 29 years. 



The 8th prince of the chronology and 6th of the pedigree IsRamachandra, 

 of whom no inscriptions have been yet found, and who is therefore of 

 questionable existence. We have then a series of seven princes in the 

 chronology ; none, or at most but one of whom is traceable in the other 

 authorities. Possibly the 14th or 15th, SXlava, JVarasinha or Immadi 

 Deva, may be the Narasa or Narasinha of the pedigree, and of some of 

 the inscriptions : the Narasinha of which is no doubt the same as the Vira 

 Narasinha of the pedigree and chronology, and who, as reigning about the 

 end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries, is the Narsinga of the 

 first European voyagers to India. 



The exclusive occurrence of a series of princes in the traditional 

 chronology may perhaps be accounted for by domestic dissensions, the 



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