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INSCRIPTIONS. 



In the above pages we hope thus to have proved the iden- 

 tity of Gore Gangaya Raddivaru with Gore Raya Gangade- 

 vayagaru and of Vithalanatha with Vithalesa, the prince 

 Vithala of the Narapati line, We hope further to have 

 brought to light the important part the Narapati princes 

 played in the history of Southern India, and their connection 

 with the Calukyas, through Vijala, the head of the Kalacurya 

 dynasty. Incidentally we have also been able to prove that 

 Vithala's cousins, Ramaraja and Tlrumalaraja were intimately 

 connected with Telugu literature, by the patronage they 

 granted to contemporary writers, and that the Ramaraja, 

 the son-in-law of Krsna Raja and the patron of the so- 

 called Bhattamurti is not the Ramaraja, who usurped in the 

 sixteenth century the throne of Yijayanagara, but Ramaraja, 

 the son of Srirangaraja, who lived two cen^iries previously in 

 the first half of the fourteenth century. 



The Narasaraja, the hero of the Narasabhupaliyam, is more- 

 over not the father of Krsnaraja but of Srirangaraja, so that 

 also in this respect the opinion hitherto upheld rested on a 

 false basis. 



Whether the authors of the Yasucaritram and of the Narasa- 

 bhupallyam were one and the same person is another question, 

 but it is neither improbable nor is it necessary. 



Moreover, from the facts brought to light in this inquiry, 

 it appears clearly that the Mahomedan invasion of the Dek- 

 kan was not at first so successful in conquering the native 

 Hindu States as has been generally assumed till now ; but 

 such an inquiry deserves separately special attention. 



