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been mistaken for the more famous Yijayanagar, the modern city on the 
Tambudra river. The word Talingana never occurs in the Peguan histories, 
but only the more ancient name Kalinga. The names of the more promi¬ 
nent kings of Tha-htun and Pegu, all occur in Indian lists, and have proba¬ 
bly been selected as pertaining to orthodox Budhists, or as being famous in 
early legend. Thus king Tiktlia, Ti-tlia, or Tissa, of Karannaka, whose 
sons are represented as first coming to Tha-htun, is probably the name of 
Asoka’s brother Tishya. The name frequently occurs among the early Bud- 
hist kings of Ceylon. The elder son is called after his father with the affix 
Kunrnia ; while the name of the younger Dza-ya, is apparently Ja-ya Sinha, 
the founder of the Chalukya race in Talingana, whom Sir Walter Elliot* 
supposes to have lived in the early part of the fifth century of the Christian 
era, and Mr. Fergusson about a century later. The eastern branch of this 
line reigned in Yengidesa, which comprised the districts between the Goda¬ 
vari and the Kistna, below the Ghats, and eventually fixed their capital at 
Rajamahendri. In the history of Tha-htun, though the two sons of king 
Tiktlia become hermits, they adopt two sons, one of whom builds the city of 
Tha-htun, and reigns there under the title of Thi-ha Radza. This name is 
probably derived from that of Raja Sinha, the posthumous son of Jaya Sinha 
above mentioned, who succeeded after a struggle to his father’s power, and 
whose birth and alliance by marriage with his enemies the Pallavas, the 
possessors of the country south of the Yarbada, are reproduced at Tha-htun 
in the dubious birth of Thi-ha Radza from a dragon’s egg, though he is 
brought up by the hermit Dza-ya. The kings of the Chalukya dynasty who 
reigned for about five centuries, were of lunar race, and apparently worship¬ 
pers of Yislmu.f The establishment of this family caused the flight and 
exile of numbers of Budhists, or quasi-Budhists, from the districts on the sea- 
coast of Talingana. On this point Sir Walter Elliot has made the following 
remarks in a communication with which he has favoured me. “ There is no 
“ doubt, the intercourse between the east coast of India, and the whole of 
« the opposite coast of the Bay of Bengal and the Straits of Malacca, was far 
“ greater in former times than at present. It had attained its height at the 
“ time that the Budhists were in the ascendant, that is, during the first five 
* See Numismatic Gleanings, Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Vol. XX, 
Also, Indian Chronology, by J. Fei^gusson, Journal R. A. Society, 18G9. 
f The coins of these kings were stampt with the figure of a boar, and tlience 
came to be called ‘ varaha mudra.’ A large number of gold coins bearing this device, 
and with characters pronounced by Sir Walter Elliot to be an ancient form of Telugu, 
were found some years ago on the Island of Cheduba, on the coast of Arakan. Tlioy 
were probably of the fifth century. They were found not far from the sea shore dis¬ 
posed as if hidden by persons wrecked on the coast, or otherwise landing suddenly. 
They wero not at all worn by usage. One of these coins was figured and described by 
Captain T. Latter, in Jour. As. Soc. of Bengal, Vol. XV., p. 210. 
