OF BHARATAVARSA OR INDIA. 
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Different legends are told to explain the name of the 
Kadamba, Kadamba or Kddamba dynasty.^" 
One story tells us that after the destruction of the demon 
Tripura a drop of perspiration fell from the forehead of 
Isvara through the hollow of a Kadamba tree, and assumed 
the form of a man with three eyes and foar arms. He was 
accordingly called Trinetra or Trildcana Kadamba, became 
the founder of the Kadamba dynasty and erected near the 
Sahija mountain his capital Vdnacdsi, also known as Jat/ant'i- 
pura. or Vaijayaiitlpura}''^ 
Another tradition relates that he was the son of Siva 
and Parvati, who stayed for a certain period in the same 
mountain range, that he was born there eventually under a 
Kadambatree, whence the child obtained his name, and 
became a king in course of time. 
These are the two most widely-spread reports, but ac- 
cording to another a Brahman of Yalgi underwent a severe 
penance in order to become a king through the favor of 
Madhukesvara.^^^ His penance was graciously accepted, and 
a divine voice informed him that he would be reborn as a 
peacock, that the person who would eat his head would 
become a king, that those who would partake of his breast 
v/ould become ministers, and that those who would feast 
on the remainder of his body would become treasurers. The 
Brahman satisfied with this promise, went to Kd§i, where he 
killed himself with a spear and was reborn as a peacock. In 
such a state he roamed about in the forest and annoimced 
See " A Kadamba Inscription at Siddhapur" by K. B. Pathak, b.a., 
in the Indian Antiquanj, vol. XI, p. 273 : " The name of the family seems to 
have been written difierently, as Kadamba, Kadamba or Kadamba." 
Consult Mackenzie MSS., Kanarese No. 744, II, pp. 208 seq., further 
H. H. Wilson's Introduction to The Mackenzie Collection, pp. 1., ci., old 
edition, pp. 60, 149, second edition; Mr. Lewis Eice's Mysore and Coorg, 
vol. I, pp. 193, 194, II, p. 352, and his Mysore Inscriptions, p. xxxiii. 
'59 See Mackenzie Manuscripts, Kanarese, No. 725, VI, pp. 99-102 ; H. H. 
Wilson's Mackenzie Collection, pp. ci, ciii, old edition ; pp. 149, 150, new 
edition. 
