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Hindu Inscriptions, 



[Jan. 



ing, that the two powerful dynasties of Gujarat and the Dekkan had a 

 common origin.* 



The accompanying tree shows the genealogy of the Chalukya family 

 for twenty-four generations, and extends over a period reaching from 

 the fifth to the thirteenth century of the Salivahana sera. Nearly the 

 whole of the present collection of inscriptions, however, are subsequent 

 to the restoration of the family, in the person of Teila, in Saka895. The 

 names anterior to that prince are given on the faith of two inscriptions, f 

 which profess to be taken from older inscriptions, on copper plates then 

 extant. Such evidence, from the universal anxiety of all men to exalt 

 the source from which they derive their origin, w^ould have been in- 

 sufficient to admit their claim to regal power antecedent to the 

 dates shown in the great body of inscriptions; but, fortunately, 

 some of these copper deeds have themselves come to light. One of 

 them, found at Kurt-Kotah, in the Dambal Parganah,| I have now the 

 honour of presenting to the Society. It consists of two plates of cop- 

 per, united by a ring, on which is engraved the figure of a boar,§ the 

 distinctive symbol or seal of the Chalukyas. These plates are in- 

 scribed on both sides with characters of the Hala-Kanarese alphabet, 

 and refer to a grant made by Vikramaditya, the eighth from Jaya 

 Sinha, in Saka 530. Two others were given to Captain T. B. Jervis, 

 Bombay Engineers (who kindly allowed me to copy them), by Chinta- 

 man Row Patwardhan, the chief of Sangli, in whose Jagir they were 

 found ; and three more, on stone, were met with in an old Jain temple, 

 at Lakmeswar, all belonging to the earlier dynasty; together with a 

 lenewal of an older grant, existing at Aminbhavi, near Dharwar. 



From these authorities we learn the following facts : Jaya Sinha 

 claims to be descended from ancestors previously enjoying royal pow- 

 er,|l of whom fifty-nine reigned in Ayodyapura and other places, 



* Ann. of Rajn vol. i.. Appendix p. 97. 



t 1. At Ye-ur, in tlie Nizam's territory, No. 4 of Vikram II., p, 166 of MS.— 2. At 

 Handarki, in Tondur, Nizam's territory, No. l4l of Vikram II., p. 402 of MS. 



t It was dug up in repairing the house of the Kulkumi, or village accountant, in 1827. 



? This device was subsequently adopted by the kings of Vijayanagar. Lands are still 

 held, on similar metallic deeds, granted by them, and bearing the same eflSgy on the seal, 



II Ye-ur, App. No. 1. The Jain Guru of the Malkheir Simhasanam gave the following 

 traditionary account of the ancestors of Jaya Sinha,— that they were descendants 



