[259] — "Bellary District Manual" (Kelsall), p. 231.
[260] — "South Indian Inscriptions" (Hultzsch), p. 132; and EPIGRAPHIA INDICA, BY the same author, iv. 266.
[261] — JOURNAL, BOMBAY BRANCH, ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, xii. 336, &c.
[262] — EPIG. IND., i. 398; iv. p. 3, note 4.
[263] — I have broadly declared this relationship, but, as a matter of fact, almost every inscription and literary work in the country differs as to the genealogy of the sovereigns who reigned from this time forward. Nuniz, however, as a contemporary writer residing at the capital, is an excellent authority.
[264] — EPIG. IND., iv. 3, note 4 (Professor Kielhorn).
[265] — Scott's edition, i. 252.
[266] — These names are discussed below.
[267] — This is apparently an error. The period was only ten years.
[268] — 16th Safar, A.H. 941 (Firishtah).