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INSCRIPTIONS. 



The Rumbas were at length succeeded by the dynasty 

 founded by Narasimha. According to Ravenshaw theNara- 

 pati prince Srirangaraja of Kalyana deposed Ramacandra 

 and installed his brother Narasimha on the throne of Vijaya- 

 nagaram. This is no impossibility. Though our pedigree 

 of the Narapatis does not contain a Sriranga who had a brother 

 Narasimha, there may have been existing a Sriranga who 

 had a near relation of this name. Our pedigree concerns 

 more the family of Kodan4arama, better known as Rama 

 Raja, and the other branches of the Narapati dynasty are 

 not so accurately given owing to the present defective state 

 of our information. 21 On the other hand, if Narasimha, the 

 founder of the new line of kings, was a scion of the Narapati 

 family, a new light is thrown on the history of the later 

 Rajas of Vijayanagaram. For this assumption of relation- 

 ship, if true, explains to a great extent the influential position 

 which the Narapati prince Kodanda Rama gained at a subse- 

 quent period in Anegundi. 



According to the Manucaritram the Tuluva prince Timma- 

 rdja married Devakidevi, and had by her a son Isvarardja 

 who married Bukkamamba. 22 In the Parijatapaharanam 

 Isvarardja is reported to have defeated the Yavanas of 

 Bedadakota near Kandukuru. Isvararaja and Bukkamamba 

 had two sons, Narasimhardja 23 and Timmardja. The former 



21 It may perhaps have heen Srirangaraja, the grandson of Tirumalaraja, 

 the "brother of Rama Raja. Narasimha is called the head of the Narapatis, 

 and Krsna Raja is often mentioned as Narapati Krsna Raja. If the Rajas of 

 Vijayanagaram did not possess previously to the accession of Narasimha the 

 title Narapati, it is easily explained why they were afterwards called Nara- 

 patis, as they belonged to the family of the Narapatis. 



22 The Parijatapaharanam names Lakkamba as the wife of Isvararaja and 

 Narasaraja as their son. 



23 In the lists occurs (p. 265) Immadi Deva (or Immadi Dharma) between 

 Narasimha (or Saluva Narasimha) and Vira Narasimha. As Narasimha, the 

 father of Vlra Narasimha, is said to have reigned twice, at first for himself 

 and the second time for a while for his son Vira Narasimha, as Immadi 

 ^^S^ means twice, and as this word as well as Mummadi (s&os&j&^j 

 thrice, is used in namps {e.g., the Tatacaryas have the name Immadi, for they 

 get twice tambulam before other Brahmans when at the court of Rajas), I 



