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Addendum, 



[No. 3^, 



detached evidences may be pointed out, as such; but avoiding a 

 drawing such conclusions as violate the proprieties of time, place, 

 and true inference from evidence afforded. 



In the present instance, it is quite clear that CJiola-rajas made 

 extensive conquests or incursions northwards, and it is equally clear 

 that at some period, a reaction by the Jaina ChaluTcyas was pro- 

 voked, and the Chola invaders defeated.-^' So much, I submit, is all 

 that we at present know on the subject. 



As regards the Oyhahis, the paper of Mr. Elliot, referred to, con- 

 tains some matter that may aid in any future full statement concern- 

 ing that dynasty. I observe that Mr. Elliot has given a derivation 

 of the word, different from that suggested by the Manuscript. I 

 must not therefore insist on my own conjecture as to Visala, though 

 a Jaina title not unknown to the north. In quoting some inscrip- 

 tions from the neighbourhood of Dharapuram, in a former page, I 

 was struck with a string of titles of northern kind, ending with the 

 Avord Bhosala ; so common among the Mahrattas. It is merely a 

 conjecture, whether Visala, Vijala, Hoisala, Poisala, and Bhosala, 

 are not all originally one title, dialectically varied. 



It is not my intention to prolong annotations on either that, or the 

 Ea?/a, dynastyf. It might be desirable to fix the era of Peddata or 

 (according to his Brahmanical title) Vishnu-verddhana. That may 

 be done perhaps by inscriptions not known to me. But the era of 

 Uamanvjacharya is the same thing. Colonel Wilks gives to the 

 latter the date of 1133, that is, I suppose, 6". Saca, 1055. The 

 Carnataca-rajahal gives to Bamannja the date S. Saca, 939. Mr. 

 Elliot regards Vishnu-verddhana as a cotemporary of Vicrama-cha- 

 lulcya 2d, whom he places in S. Saca, 998 to 1049. Our M. S. gives 

 the Saca year 1015 for the birth of Vishnu-verddhana, and grants 

 are specified in S. S. 1021, 1039, 1044, 1050, 1053. The close of 

 the eleventh century of the Christian era, may therefore be fixed as 

 that period in which he flourished. Up to that date we may ascend 

 by dates tolerably well fixed ; and higher up still as far as Bajendra- 

 €hola. But previous to this last, it is my present opinion, that dates 

 are uncertain. There were powerful ChahiJci/as, Ganapatis, Cholas, 

 Pandiyas, and Chcras, in existence antecedently ; the chronology of 

 whom I suppose to be not yet exactly determined. ^ 



* Soo Madiiis Journal Literature and Science, vol. 7, p. 201—206 *' 

 ■r At Vija\ auagiuam. 



