ON THE GANGA KINGS. 



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Madhava II appears to have married the sister of Krishna 

 Varmma, the Kadamba king. This is the well-known royal 

 race who ruled the Banavase country in the north-west of 

 Mysore from the beginning of the Christian era till the 

 Chalukya invasion of the 5th century. They then became 

 feudatories of the Chalukyas and were restricted to the 

 government of Hanugal. But in the 1 1 th century they seem 

 to have again received a great part of their former dominions, 

 though as tributary kings. Traces of them are found down to 

 the foundation of Vijayanagar in 1336, and the first kings of 

 that empire may have been descendants from the Kadambas. 



Of the places conquered by Avinita, only one can be 

 identified with confidence, namely, Pennagara, still called 

 by that name and situated near the left bank of the Kaveri 

 in the north-west of the Salem district. 



The Pallava king trodden to death by elephants in a battle 

 with Vilanda Raja, is the representative of a highly interest- 

 ing dynasty, under whom were executed the splendid sculptures 

 of Amaravati and of the Seven Pagodas. To about 605 their 

 capital was at Vengi near Rajamandri, of which being then 

 dispossessed by the Eastern Chalukyas, they removed the 

 seat of their government to Kdnchi (Conjeveram), where it 

 remained till the end of the 1 1th century, about which time 

 the dynasty came to an end. There is reason to believe that 

 they were preceded in the government of the Palar valley 

 by a line of kings of the Mahavali family. 



The Manyapura from which our grant was made, I have 

 little doubt is the ancient city whose site is pointed out near 

 Chamrajnagar in the south of Mysore as Manipura. Grudalur, 

 where the lands which form the donation were situated, may 

 pretty certainly be identified with the place of that name on 

 the north-west of the Nilgiri, between Ootacamund and 

 Manantoddy. 



