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Hindu Ifucripliens, 



years, averaged only nineteen and a fraction years each : and the 

 Yadavas, a fraction less than eighteen. Assuming this average as a 

 basis, we cannot assign to Java Sinha an earlier dale than Saka 572 ,* 

 nor toPalakesi, one beyond Saka 610. 



The only solution of the difficulty that offers is, to suppose that 

 the aera of Pulakesi has not been rightly ascertained. But then the 

 mistake must be continued throDgh the whole of the succeeding 

 dates, which tally with each other in a way that affords the strongest 

 presumptioii of their freedom from any material error. The com- 

 plete genealogy only occurs on a stane at Ye-ur, purporting to have 

 been copied from an older copper Sasana. It stales, however (and 

 it is confirmed by another stone at Handarki), that " sixteen reigned 

 after Java Sinha," and accordingly we find that number occurring 

 from Rana Ragaha to Teila, who began a new epoch. A slight 

 doubt, however, occurs in two places: 1st. Whether Mangalisa, 

 second son of Pulakesi, actually did reign ; and, 'idlj-, Whether V ikra- 

 maditj a, who began to reign Saka 655, was succeeded by his son 

 Rirtthivarma, or by his nephew of the same name, or by both con- 

 secutively. Admitting both these events, and the first seems hardly 

 doubtfol, we have seventeen names after Jaya Sinhn, and sixteen 

 between the ascertained dates, which, however, only reduces the 

 average of each reign to thirty years. Another supposition is, that 

 the eypression " sixteen reigned in the Dekkan" refers only to those 

 who actually enjoyed regal power, and excludes some of the imme- 

 diate predecessors of Teila ; but, on the other hand, the genealogical 

 succession is full and complete, and deduced regularly (o Teilapa. 



A more authentic eera now commences. Teila having conquered 

 the Rattas, began to reign Saka 895.* He is described as a new 

 shoot of the royal tree of Chalukya, securing his hereditary domi- 

 nions from the grasp of the enemy, as Yishnu in the Yaraha Avatar 

 feaved the earth from Narkasura ;"t as " overthrowing the Rattakula, 

 and ilay'mg the brave Munja as " destroying Kankara, the moon 

 of the Batta Knla Sea and in one instance he has the title of 

 Ahawa Malla.tj Who these Rattas were does not appear ; perhaps 

 they may be identical with the Ralitores. A family of the tribe is 

 mentioned among the feudatory nobles, and will be noticed hereafter. 



* lrx%. U T^.npU ^o. 51 of VIF., i*. " He itj;.j.^u i • (...ty-four ypare from 



£r:r".}:h S%T:rjr5tsara," See also at Endw^adi, 5fo- 

 ^ Aj;p. >'o. 1. % In«. at Gada^, No. 40 of VII., p. 23.ji. 



} Itws. at MangoK, No. I of IX., p. *'.u \ lus. at Anigiri, No. 7 of IX., p. 



