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Raja Sinha, who subsequently assumed the titles of Rana-raga 

 and Vishnu Vard'hana. On attaining to man's estate, he renewed 

 the contest with the Pallavas, in which he was finally successful, 

 cementing his power by a marriage with a princess of that race, 

 and transmitting the kingdom thus founded, to his posterity. His 

 son and successor was named Pulakesi, and his son was Vijaya- 

 ditya II. A copper 'sdsanam recording a grant made by Pulakesi 

 which bears date S. S. 411 or A. D. 489, is extant in the British 

 Museum. The next prince was Kirtti Varma who left two sons, 

 the elder of whom Satya sraya succeeded him in the kingdom 

 of Kuntala desa, the capital of which was Kalyan, a city still ex- 

 isting under the same name, about 100 miles west and a little 

 north of Hydrabad, while the younger, Kubja Vishnu Vard'hana 

 or Vishnu Vardhana the Little,* established a new seat for himself 

 in Telingana by the conquest of Vengipuram, the capital of the 

 Vengi desam, which comprised the districts between the Godavery 

 and the Kistna below the ghats. This event appears to have 

 taken place about the end of the sixth or beginning of the seventh 

 century. 



The two families ruled over the whole of the table-land be- 

 tween the Nerbudda and the Krishna, together with the coast of 

 the Bay of Bengal from Ganjam to Nellore, for about five centu- 

 ries.! The power of the Kalyan dynasty was subverted for a time 

 in the end of the 9th or beginning of the 10th century, and the 

 emigrant prince or his son, succeeded by marriage in A. D. 931 to 

 the throne of Anhalwara Pattan in Guzerat, which his descendants 

 occupied with great glory till A. D. 11454 But m A. D. 973 the 

 dynasty of Kalyan was restored in the person of Tailapa Deva and 

 ruled with greater splendour than before till its extinction in A. D. 

 1189 by Bijjala Deva, the founder of the Kalab'huriya dynasty. § 



The junior branch extended their territories northwards from 

 Vengi to the frontiers of Cuttack, and ultimately fixed their capi- 



* The word Kubja properly signifies " crooked" or " hunch-backed." 



t Dating from the first conquest of Raja Sinha the whole period would bo 

 seven centuries, but there is some chronological obscurity about the earlier 

 princes of the series which we hope to clear up hereafter. 



% Tod Ann. Rajasthan, where the Anhalwara family is styled both Solanki 

 and Chalukya, pp. 80 and 97. 



$ Jour. R. As. Soc. IV. p. 17 ; and Mad. Jour. Lit, and Sc. VII. p. 209. 



