inscriptions in the hassan district

IV INTRODUCTION.
is merely called Kadambarasa, and he made a grant of land on account of a
man who -fell in fight. In the third, of which a good deal is effaced, the king's
name seems to be given as Malapa-Raja, and he seems to have bestowed a title
or crown upon the son of the nal-gavunda of the Manale Three Hundred, and
given him an estate. The latter was either mounted at the same time on an
elephant, or else had captured an elephant, for which this was the reward.
A Manale Three Hundred is mentioned in the Javali plates (Mj. 36, Vol. VI
of this Series), "but the description there given of its situation places it beyond
Bellary, far away from Hassan. They cannot therefore be the same, and there
is a difference also of 275 years between the two inscriptions. But the present
Manale is no doubt the one mentioned in Hg. 93 (Vol. IV of this Series), dated
in 1007 A. D., which speaks of the gavunda of Manale coming forth on a raid
with three hundred men.
We next have a series of seven inscriptions in Manjarabad taluq connected
with a Kadamba king named Niti-maharaja. The, dates range from 1026 A. D.
(MJ. 53) to about 1035 (Mj. 55), the latter recording his death with the performance
of the Jaina rite of sannyasanam. The inscriptions are very short
and much effaced. In Mj. 51 only lole remains of the name of his residence,
and Mj. 55 contained the name of his father, which is gone.
The last Kadamba inscription here is Mj. 18 of the date 1095 A. D It
belongs to the reign of Tribhuvanamalla Dayasimha-maharaja, who was the
youngest of the three sons of Dudda-maharaja, and grandson of Chagi-maharaja.
He is said to have slain a powerful enemy named Sripala, who had an immense
army; and he had obtained a boon from the goddess Ekkala. A long account
is given of his virtues and accomplishments, winding up with the question,—
Why have another Bharata story? Is not king Dayasimha's history enough? 0
The object of the inscription is to record the construction of a tank by his
mother Mechala-Devi, who was the daughter of king Banki-Balarita. She also
had a temple built for the god Vasudeva, which she endowed, and established
an agrahara named Arasiyapura for five Brahmans.
If this king's father and grandfather preceded him on the throne, as we
may naturally suppose, the three reigns would fill up the time from the death
of Niti-maharaja above. No reference is made to Bayal-nad, which was ruled
by Kadamba kings at this period as we know from the inscriptions in our
Vol. IV, nor is any connection apparent between them. The Kongalvas and
Changalvas separated them. Of these various hill states in the Western Ghats
in the 11th century, the Kadambas of Bayal-nad or Wainad were apparently
independent. The Changalvas and Kongalvas by the cognomens they assume
evidently admit Chola supremacy. The Kadambas in Manjarabad on the other
1) The same question oceurs later on in Hn. 58 with referenoe to VishnaYarddbana.