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Hindu hiscriptions. 



pur; the worshipper of Jayanti Madhukeswar* sprimg from the I\a- 

 damba Chakii, who was born from the e\^e of Siva, master of twenty- 

 four cities, whose eye was in the centre of his forehead, the four-armed, 

 the performer of the Aswa medha ; this ornament of his race, cele- 

 brated for the monkey ensign and the simha signet whilst reigning over 

 Banawassi and Pannngiil, and residing at Pantya pura,t &c." permits 

 his Danda Nayaka, named Iswaram Eiya, to make a grant in Saka 

 10304 The ffira of Tailapa Kndamba holding the government of the 

 Banawassi province is thus clearly established to be from Saka 999 to 

 1030. The number of names occurring before his in the genealogy 

 is sixteen, and allowing thirty years to a generation, we may fix the 

 age of Ivlayura Varma about Saka 500 or 520. 



It v/ould appear from the inscription given in the Appendix, that the 

 Kadambas were one of the great tribes or families existing anterior to 

 the Chaluky as, being mentioned as contemporaneous with the Rattas 

 and Kalabhuryas, and their subjection was probablj effected by 

 Kirtthivarma, who must have lived nearly about the same time as Ma- 

 yura Yarma. They seem likewise to have asserted a degree of inde- 

 pendence during the temporary overthrow of the Chalukya power, for 

 their redaction is mentioned in the same authority as the exploit of 

 Vikram I., the grandson of Tailapa Chalukya I. 



Mayura Yarma is still knov^n by tradition, and is always quoted by 

 the Haiga Brahmans as the sovereign who introduced them into Kana- 

 ra from Ahi Chhatra. When asked, however, where that place is, they 

 profess their ignorance. 



The descendants of Mayura Yarma seem to have sunk into in- 

 significance ; no mention of them occurring till Saka 956, when they 

 are styled rulers of Panangal. It seems doubtful whether they 

 could ever be considered as maha mandaleswars, as they are 

 stated to have been under the subjection of or subordinate to other 

 superior nobles. Thus Mayura Yarma II., in 955, was head of the 

 Hangal or Panangal alone, under the maha raandaleswar Sriman Pe- 

 gadiMadanaiya, the governor under Jaya Sinha Chalukya of Santalgi 

 and Banawassi, whose permission is requisite to confirm Mayura 

 Yarma's grant. § Again, in 989, Chamunda Raya Maha Mandales war, 

 lord of Banawassi, is the Kadamba superior ;|1 and in 99/ we find 



* There is a celebrated temple at Bana-svassi in commemoration of Madhu Kaitablia, 

 dedicated to Iswar, and another at the neighbouring town of Anivatti, sacred to the 

 same deity as Kalabhiswar. 



t I at first thought this to be the old name of Adur, but in the inscriptions at 

 that place it is written Padiyur. 



X Ins. No. 78 of VII., Chaluk, p. 30S ; also No. 7, do. do. p. l79. 



\ Ins. at Adur, No. 10 of IV., Chaluk., vol. i., p. 3-1. Ditto, No. 8 of V., p. 52. 

 las. at Madur and Belgavi, >io.s. 8 and 9 of V., Chah;k„ p. 63, 3, 



