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ON THE GANGA KINGS. 



His son, inheriting all the qualities of his father, possess- 

 ing a character for learning and modesty, having obtained 

 the honors of the kingdom only for the sake of the good 

 government of his subjects, a touchstone for (testing) gold 

 the learned and poets, skilled among those who expound and 

 practice the science of politics, the author of a treatise on 

 the law of adoption, was Sriman Mddhava Mahadhiraja. 



His son, possessed of all the qualities inherited from his 

 father and grandfather, whose fame through entering into 

 war with many elephants had tasted the waters of the four 

 oceans, was Srimad Hari Varmma Mahadhiraja. 



His son, devoted to the worship of Brahmans, gurus and 

 gods, praising the feet of Narayana, was Sriman Vishnu Gopa 

 Mahadhiraja. 



His son, — whose head was purified by the pollen from the 

 lotuses the feet of Tryambaka, having purchased his king- 

 dom by personal strength and valour, daily eager to extricate 

 the ox of merit from the thick mire of the Kali-yuga in which 

 it had sunk, was Sriman Mddhava Mahadhiraja. 



His son, — the dear sister's son of Krishna Varmma Mahadhi- 

 raja, the sun to the sky of the Kadamba race — having a mind 

 chastened with the growth of learning and modesty, of 

 indomitable bravery in war, reckoned the first of the learned 

 was Sriman Kofigani Mahadhiraja. 



His son named Avinita, possessed of the three powers of 

 increase, who had brought anxiety to the face of Yama on 

 account of the smallness of the residue left after the 

 countless animals offered to him (namely) the brave men con- 

 sumed in the sacrifice of the face of the many wars waged for 

 Andari, AlatMr, Paurutore, Pennagara and other places, the 

 author of a commentary on fifteen sargas of the Kirdtdr- 

 jumya, was called Duvvimta. 



His son, the lotuses of whose two feet were dyed with the 

 balls of honey shaken from the lines of clustering bees the 



