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Chapter 1
Prolegomena
Nhe present Shimoga district in
Karņāțaka witnessed some
extraordinary royal families, both major and minor, like the MandaliSāsira, Sāntaļige-Sāsira, Jidduļige-70, Nāgarakhanda-70 and the Sāmantas of Chikka Māgadi, Tevara Teppa, Elevāļa and Bārangi. A good number of the charters of these families contain references to a chronological history of their successors. This monograph aims at recording a brief survey of the Mandali - Thousand principality through ages.
The Mandali-Thousand did not emerge from obscurity. The Gangas are referred to with the dynastic appellation of the Western Gangas, the Gangas of Talkāç or Talavanapura or Kuvalālapura or of Karņāțaka etc. The phrase of the Western Gangas of Talkādu, coined by B.L. Rice, gained currency, as the subsequent historians accepted it. Lewis Rice, a pioneer in the field, brought to light a good number of the Ganga copper plate inscriptions. J.F. Fleet, gen
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