1847.] 



TJie race of Hari-hara-raya. 



SI 



above is the copy of the stone inscription in the village of Nuki- 

 halli in the Devastdnam (fane) of Sada-siva-svami. 



During the time when Oyi.sala Naraswgho.-raya was governing 

 the kingdom the Senalipo^ti (or general) ivdmed Boma-manande-nayaka, 

 gave to one named Basaven four hundred Cambams of land, from 

 beneath the village bund of a tank, which he himself had construct- 

 ed, together with a tank, by means of seven per cent, from a tax call- 

 ed Bija, both of which he purchased with his own money, and gave 

 irrevocably to the aforesaid Basaven, with a charge to feed daily 

 twelve Brahmans in a choultry, which he (the Sendlipati) had built 

 in the village of JViiki-halli, entitled Sowa-nafha-puram ; agreeably 

 to which order, that Basaven statedly continued the feeding of the 



CO mo- . ^ Brahmans : ♦S'acayear 1235, in ^waw^a year, Car- 

 S. Saca, 123o, A. D. . . . 



3 ticey-suddha-fddyami : on Monday the gift of 



charity was made. This is a copy of the stone 



inscription in the fane of Chenna-raya-svamir^ 



The race of Hari-hara-raya. 



Yadu, the so called king, was of the Cha?idra-va?nsa (lunar race). 

 Many kings proceeded from that race of Yadu. Among them was 

 1 Sangaman named Sangaman.] He having come to the 



Dacshin, to the banks of the Tungahhadra river, 

 and dwelling there, he with elephants, horses, chariots, and foot 

 soldiers, these four kinds of arms, conquered the whole of the 



* According to the M. S. Narasingha II. was installed S.S. 1205, A.D. 1282—3, and the 

 latest inscription is dated in S. S. 1235, or A. D. 1312—3. The 30th year of his reign. 

 That date however is two years later than the date assigned by Ferishta for the sacking 

 of Dwara Samudra by the Mahomedans in A. D. 1310. The difference of reckoning, by 

 lunar and solar years, may account for the discrepancy. Whether the capital ever 

 recovered from the effects of the Mahomedan capture, is somewhat doubtful. The 

 Manuscript adds nothing about it. Some revival did occur ; but to what extent is not 

 fully known. In about 13 years afterwards Warankal sustained the fate of Dwara 

 Samudra ; and, though in both there were remains of life, yet it is probable that tem- 

 porary subsequent successes, against the Mahomedans, only paved the way for the 

 ascendancy of the most powerful chieftain of the Native confederacy ; probably the 

 Bukha-raya of the Vijayanagara dynasty. We must still look for some powerful prince 

 also named Narasingha who, at a date considerably posterior, upset the first dynasty at 

 Vijayanagara. I think the scattered remains of power of Dwara Samudra and Warankal 

 were concentered in that chief; whose first locality was probably at or near the later 

 Pennaconda : for to that place, on their final misfortunes, the desceiulants of that family 

 returned ; as if it had been to their ancient patrimonial domain. 



f Among the local papers iu the Mackenzie Collection there Avas one, an account of a 

 northern chieftain in very early times, which I considered as probably the pedigree of 

 Sangama. I regret not having been very particular in ray attention. 



