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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.

baneshwar, if they could be rightly interpreted, would be historically most important. The Khan dagiri caves bear ample indicia of a Buddhist origin. But Mr. Locke considers there is also a Greek ele

ment plainly perceptible in the ornament; I do not now refer to the dress worn by the booted figure of the Râni's cave, which, notwithstanding its foreign appearance, Bābu Rājendralāla supposes to be indigenous to this country, I speak of the con ventional ornament on the mouldings and friezes. And then, if we pass to Bhubaneshwar, we find

Kādambas. From No. 8, we have the following list of kings : — Jayanta or Trilochanakādamba. An interval during which eighteen asvamedhas were performed by his descendants. Shashthadeva.

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decorative ornament is extreme, a close examina

tion shows that, after all, the whole is little more than repetition on repetition of certain comparative

Vijayaditya II or Vikramārka (his brother) md. to Pattºmahádevi.

ourselves in the presence of a type of Hindu art, which is, at any rate in this sense, archaic, namely, that the forms assumed by the temples were deve loped in the infancy of structural resource. The lofty pyramidal tower, gradually rounded in at the top, and surmounted by a lotus-shaped crown, is not at first sight, I think, pleasing to the eye; but it is easy to understand how it might have grown out of the exigencies under which the builder work ed. Without the aid of cement, and in the absence of any knowledge of the arch, the horizontal sec tion which could be effectually covered over by overlapping slabs of stone would necessarily be small, and therefore it would be by height alone that the designer could give any imposing character to his buildings. In those cases where the wealth of

Jayakesi I. (his son) Vijayāditya I. (his son.) Jayakesi II. (his son) ma. to Mailamahādevi. Permádi or Sivachitta (his son.)

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Jayakesi III. (his son.)

The inscription records a grant made by Jayakesi III. in the year of the Kaliyuga 4288 (A.D. 1187-8). The first in the list, Jay anta or Tril och an a k a dam ba, ‘born from the drops of sweat which flowed from Siva's forehead to the root of the

Kadamba tree, when he conquered the demon Tripura,' seems to be a half mythical personage. He is probably intended for the same as Trinetra

kadamba, who is said to have reigned about K.Y 3210 (A.D. 100, or according to Buchanan, 161-2). The princess Mailalá, whom Jayakesi II. married, is described as the younger sister of Soma, and is given in marriage to king Permádi; and as Jayakesi I. is spoken of as having formed friendship with the Chālukya and Chola kings, this Permädi is evident ly indentical with Vikramāditya II. or Permādi Rāya of the Chālukya dynasty, whose date Mr.

ly few forms, examples of each of which appear on

Elliott gives as Saka 908-1049 (A.D. 1076-1127)

almost every temple.—From the President's Address, Proc. As. Soc. Beng. Feb. 1872.

which corresponds very well with the position oc. cupied by Jayakesi II in this list, and who was suc ceeded by his son Someswara Deva III. There is also

“Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (No. 27), 1870.” This part of the Journal has just been published and contains:—(1) a paper “On some Sanskrit copper plates found in Belgäm Collectorate :” by J. F. Fleet, C.S. No. 9. of these plates is in possession of a weaver at Băgawādi in the Belgäm taluqa. It is in three sheets, written in a corrupted form of the Kāyastha character, and bears on the seal a figure of Hanumán. It gives us the names of three kings of the Yádava dynasty,+1. Kanhára, the son of Jaitugi, the son of Simhana. The date of the latter is given by Mr. Elliot as Saka 1132 to 1170 ? with a note to the effect that the exact date of his death has not been ascertained. His suc

cessor is Kandarae Deva, Kandarāya Deva, or Kanera Deva, Saka 1170? to 1182, who is evident ly the same as Kanhära of this inscription. The last inscription of Simhana that Mr. Elliot obtained bore the date of Saka 1169. In the present inscrip tion the name of Simhana's son is supplied as Jaitugi, and, the grant being made by Kanhära

(his grandson) in Saka 1171. Mr. Elliot's conjecture as to the date of his accession is thereby confirmed. The remaining plates relate to the family of the

an inscription at Halsi, dated K.Y. 4270, which agrees with No. 8 in giving Jayanta as the first king. It then proceeds to Jayakesi, who made Gopakapat. tana his capital. To him was born Vijayaditya, whose son was Jayasiva or Jeyakesi. Jayasiva married Mallalamahadevi, (?Mailalakádevi) and begat Sivachitta and Vishnuchitta.

Mallalama

hädevi is said to to be the daughter of Vikramárka “the ruby of the Chālukyas.”

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From plates 1 to 7 is obtained this genealogy of the Kádamba Kings —

1. 2. 3. 4.

Kákusthavarmá (plates 1, 2, 3, 4,) Sántivarmá (his son ; 2, 3, 4). Mriges'a (his son ; 2, 3, 4). Ravivarmá (his son : 2, 4, 5, 6); his brothers

Bhánuvarmá (4); and Sivaratha (7). 5. Harivarmá (son of Ravivarmá; 6). They belong to the Mānavyagotra and are the descendants of Háriti; and Palásiká appears to have been, if not their capital, at least a place of importance.

Palásiká in No. 8 has been corrupted

to Palasika, and in the stone inscription has dwin dled to Palasi. Unfortunately we have no direct means of fixing the dates of these kings. Plate 1

tells us that Kákusthavarmá, Yuvaraja of the Kadambas made a grant in the 80th year, possibly