1838.-1 



Hindu inscriptions. 



201 



The Ye-ur inscription styles him lord of Watapipura ; and another^ 

 &t Barungi, in Mysore, relates that, "among many former celebrated 

 Rajas, was Pulakesi. He burned Kanchi, the capital of Choi, who in 

 return destroyed Kalyan, which Pulakesi no sooner heard, than, mount* 

 ing his elephant, he attacked Choi and killed him."* 



The brothers Kirtthivarma and Mangalisa, severally followed their 

 father Pulakesi ; and the succession was then continued in the elder 

 branchj by SatyaSri, son of Kirtthivarma^ He is said to have been 

 celebrated for his virtuous qualities (Satya), and it is added, that from 

 him his descendants adopted the title of Satya Sri Kula. But we find 

 the same title adopted as a generic appellation by his grandfather, Pu- 

 lakesi, and it is likewise enumerated among the names of those princes 

 who had previously reigned in the North. f We also find it assumed 

 by many of his successors, while others prefer that of Vikramaditya, 

 dr Vikram. 



His eera is fixed by an inscription at the small village of Aminbhavij 

 four or five miles from Dharwar, which shows that he was reigning in 

 Saka4884 



The next names on the list are Amara, Aditya Varma, and Vikrama- 

 ditya. A copper grant presented to the Royal Asiatic Society is of 

 the time of the last mentioned prince. It bears date, the thirty-second 

 bf his reign, Saka 530, and his accession is thus fixed as having occur- 



©rie of which, Alakta nagara, pi-oducuig ride, sugat, cloves, nutmegs, he built a Jain 

 ftiandapa, by permission of the Satya Sri, and endowed It, &c. The date is expressed 

 thus : Sak' abdeshu ekadasutreshu chatu seteshu vibhuva Samvatsara." This gives Sa* 

 ka 41 f ^ but Vibhuva is 410 ; a difference of one year, however, between the inscribed date, 

 and that calculated from the present time, occurs in several other places. 



• Ins. No. 103 of No. VII., p. 352 of MS. I am not acquainted with the site of Wata- 

 pipura. Many of the great families are styled lords of some great city, as the Kalabhur- 

 yas of Kalanjra, and the Silaharas of Tagara, which have no reference to their existing 

 localities . 



T See App. No. I. 



i It records the renewal, of a grant in the time of Tribhnvana Malla Vikram (one of the 

 i&ter Chalukya princes, subsequent to Teila), to the Sri Mulasthan Kali Deva temple, by 

 ainanta Palarasu Danda Nayaka ; which grant had formerly been made by, or in the tima 

 t)f Satya Sri, son of Kirtthivarma, son of Pulakesi, then reigning or residing at Kesuwa- 

 iaia, (the modern perhaps?) Kusanuron the banks of the Malapahari river, in Saka 485, 

 Servajit Samvatsara. The date is given disinctly in figures, and, as in the former in - 

 stance, the cycle year corresponds within one of he calculation made from the present 

 time, Servajit thereby being 489. The renewal of, the grant is made by Ananta Pal 

 chief of the Palsagi 12,000 (villages understood). The different jurisdictions or territo- 

 rial divisions, are always expressed iu this manner. Palsagi is the modcra Parganah qi 

 Halsi, in the Bidi Taluk. 



