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Hindu Inscriptions. 



[Jan. 



The Jain Guru of Malkheir, who has already been quoted, enume- 

 rates four great nobles of the first rank as principal feudatories of 

 the Kalyan state, and states generally, that there were besides sixteen 

 of inferior grade. 



The former were 1st. Bijalenk Row, of Kalyan pattan, who is 

 the same with the Vijala of the Kalabhurya Kula mentioned in the 

 inscriptions. 



2dly. JytPalof Amba Jogi, or Jogae Amba. There were origi- 

 nally five brothers of this family, from whom descended the Panchatn 

 Jains, of whom 80,000 in one day became proselytes to Basavapa, and 

 are now the Pancham Lingayats. 



^^dly. Tamra dhwaj, Raja of Latur, near Renapur, on the Manjera. 



4thly. Gandantin Maharaja, of Bhir, near Kolapur. And to each 

 of these some different office in the household was attached. 



The inscriptions, however, make no mention of the second and third 

 of these. Indeed their localities are so far removed from the scene 

 where the collection was principally made, that the want of any record 

 of their existence is not extraordinary. 



The most conspicuous names met with in the inscriptions are, — 



1st. The Kalabhurya family, of whom Vijala, or Bijalenk Row, 

 was the most remarkable individual. 



2nd. The Silaharas of Kolapur, Gandaditya or Gandavaditya ; one 

 of this race is the Gandantin Maharaj of the Guru. 



3rd. The Kadambas of Banawassi, one of the oldest and most 

 distinguished families that occur. 

 4th. The Rattas of Sughandavati, now Sawandati, or Samadati. 



THE KALABHURYAS. 



The Kalabhuryas have already been noticed as having overthrown 

 the ancient house of the Chalukyas to which they had long been 

 subject. Several inscriptions of the family occur at Ingliswar, near 

 Mudibahal (now the Jaghir of the Punt Pritti Niddhi). In one of 

 these* a grant is made by Sri Karanam Nilkanth Nayaka. with the 

 permission of * * * * Hegade Arasu, Maha Mandaleswar, the 

 son of the Kalabhurya Kula, lord of Kalanjapur, lord of the five Maha 

 Sabdasjt &c. (with the usual style and titles of a dependent noble), the 



• Ins. No. 2 of VIII., the Chaluk series, p. 432. 



+ Lord of the Pancha maha sabda, or five great sounds, is a title always joined with 

 that of maha mandaleswar, and never with that of the sovereign in any of the more 

 modern inscriptions. It does, however, occur among the titles of Pulakesi iu the copper 

 inscription of Captain Jervis. 



