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Hindu Inscriplions. 



in the north, or in Hindustan ; and among these are specified the 

 names of Vishnu Verdhana, Vijaj^aditya, and Satya Sri. Sixteen are 

 then described as reigning after him, in the Dekkan, or South coun- 

 try ; but previous to them, two other families or races had possessed 

 it, the Kartas* and the Rattas, the latter of whom were overthrown by 

 Jaya Sinha, who defeated and destroyed Krishna, the Ratta Raja.f 



His son was Raja Sinha, surnamed, from his warlike qualities, Ra- 

 na Ragaba. The name, Raja Sinha, occurs only in one place,"]: and 

 may, perhaps, not be correct ; but his title appears repeatedly. 



The son of the preceding, Pulakesi, appears to have been a prince 

 of great power. One of the copper deeds, in the possession of Captain 

 Jervis, records a grant made during his reign, in Saka411. He is 

 described as " having performed the A&wamedha sacrifice ; as plung- 

 ing among the hosts of his enemies, mounted on his horse Chitra 

 Kanta ; as reigning from the Ganga to Selu ; his standard floating to the 

 Ganga and the Yamuna, Lord of tite Single Canopy (eka chatra adipati), 

 and imposing his orders on the mighty chiefs of Choi, Kerala, Kalin- 

 ga, Simhala, Bhupal."§ 



of the king.T of Dolhi, from ■whom spvanj Ilema Syn, ■\vho came to Darmapur,. 

 forty kos from Hyderabad, and married the daughter of the chief of that place. 

 His son, Dharma Pal, married the daughter of the Rajah of Chikodi (near Kolapur), and 

 built the fort of Bagalkotah (on the Ghatpa or Ghatparba river), whence he derived the 

 title of Bagarasu. He afterwards settled at Sivagam, near Auruagabad, and made himself 

 master of Sarrar-shapur, beyond the Godaveri ; and finally he built, and settled himself 

 at Nagavi, near Malkheir. His son, Chittra Datta, or Chitr Syn, removed to Chitapur, 

 three kos from Nagavi, on account of the badness of the water, and built Malkheir, or 

 Mahipati Nagara ; the old name of which was Maliyadra. Subsequently they removed 

 to Kalyan, changing its name from Belgola, to its present denomination. But this account 

 is too vague to be deserving of much credit. 



In one of the inscriptions the origin of the family is deduced from " Brahm, Manuspu- 

 tra (or Atri), Mandavi or Mandarvya, Hariti, Hariti Pancha Sikha, who was making a 

 libation to the sun, at the Sri Sanddhya, when the Chalukyas sprang from the spray of 

 the water poured out. In this race were born Vishnu Verddhana, Vijayaditya, and Sa- 

 tya Sri, Lord of Ayodya, &c," — Handarki Ins. p. 402. 



In another, the descent is brought from Brahma, through Budha and Ila, to Paruravas, 

 *' from whom came Hariti the five-tufted, making illustrious the Soraavansa, and progeni- 

 tor of many royal races, conspicuous among wMch was the Chalukya vansa, in which 

 was born Satya Sri, the lord of Ayodya, from whom the race was denominated the Satya 

 Sri Kula."— Ins. at Ittagi, No. 86 of Vik. II., p. 3i9. 



* Ins. at Handarki, p. 403. t Ins. at Ye-ur, App. No. I. 



X Captain Jervis's copper Sasana. 



1 Copper Sasana. The grant is made by Sivunda of the Nilasandra Vansa, servant of 

 Satya Sri Pulakesi, who appointed him governor of the Kukundi des of 700 villages, iu 



