OF UHARATAVARSA OR INDIA. 2-1:5 
At a much later period we find the Kadambas connected 
with the last great dynasty of Southern India, the Rajas of 
Vijayanagara. The founders of this kingdom are also said 
to have been Kurumbas. If the first family of the Vijaya- 
nagara kings were Kurumbas, and on the other hand re- 
lated to the once famous, but then decayed though not extinct 
royal house of the Kadambas of Tuluva, historical evidence, 
however slight, would have been adduced to establish the 
connection between the Kurumbas and the Kadambas, and 
this connection is in its turn supported by philological proof 
of the original identity of their names. 
I have thus in the preceding pages given an account of 
those more important sections of the Graudian population 
whose identification offered the least difiiculty, and who from 
time immemorial have occupied an acknowledged position 
among the inhabitants of India. 
I have shown, moreover, that these Graudians form 
together with the Dravidians the Grauda-Dravidian race, and 
a savage, a stubborn fellow, and kurumbu (or kurumbuttamm), barbarity, 
insolence and wickedness. The same word underwent a slight alteration, 
of u being changed into a, so that Kadamban signifies in both these 
languages an unruly fellov), and in Dr. WLnslow's Dictionary we find on 
p. 219 "<si_LD(_/'r (Katampar), s. Unruly persons, (^^ilduit (Kurumpar)." 
The only explanation of the name Kadamba I remember to have seen, is 
contained in Mr. Grigg's Manual of the Nilagiri District, where in note 4 
on p. 208 he asks : " May not this word (Kadamba) be a compound of Katu or 
KS,tam {both meaning forest) and Kfirumba, and perhaps be the same as 
Kad-Kdrumba?" 
'^^ See y/^e Mackenzie Collection Introduction, p. civ; new edition, pp. 
61, 62 : " There is little doubt also that the first princes of Vijayanagar were 
descended from a Tuluva family of ancient origin and power, whose 
dominions extended towards the western sea : whether they were connected 
with the Kadamba family does not appear, but that this race continued to 
hold possessions in Kerndta, tiU near their time, is proved by grants at 
Banavdsi, Savanur, and Gokernam, dated in the twelfth, thirteenth and 
fourteenth centuries by Kadamba kings." Compare also Mr. Lewis Eice's 
Mysore and Coorg, vol. Ill, p. 98 : " In 1336 was founded the city of Vijaya- 
nagar, whose princes are said to have derived their origin from the 
Kadambas." 
