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Mallikarjuna was helping him. Dr. Krishnaswami Ayyangar
under the heading 'Virupaksha possibly a usurper', in the
Little Known Chapter, says :-
"
What then is the significance of Mallikarjuna and
his Danaik Thimmanna's move to Penugonda on the business
of Narasinga's kingdom? Was it jealousy of the rising power
of the chief, or was it the suspicion engendered by incapa-
city at Headquarters? It may be either or both." A third
alternative will be seen from the above discussion to be
possible--namely, the minority or youth of Narasimha and
the peril to his kingdom from the invasion by the Orissa
king Kapilesvara. Dr. Krishnaswami Ayyangar has observ-
ed that the earlier inscriptions of Narasimha acknowledge
the suzerainty of Mallikarjuna, and it is Virupaksha's name
that appears but sparingly afterwards.
4. The verse of the Sripadarājāshtaka quoted in the
beginning of this note may, in the light of the foregoing
discussion, be taken to refer to an incident of circa 1476
A.D., after Saluva Narasimha I had returned from Kalinga.
This agrees well with the conclusion in the text of the
Introduction (see para 90).
B.
The
It will be seen that Somanatha in his Introduction
invokes the blessings of the Ten Avatars of Vishnu.
Buddha is not one of the Avatars so contemplated. Some
scholars think that the omission of Buddha by Somanatha
from the ten Avatars is an indication that Somanatha was
not a Vaishnava. Again at page 68 of the Sanskrit
text, Somanatha says, speaking of Krishna Devaraya's
time, that all Brahmans placing their faith in Vishnu.
under the heading 'Virupaksha possibly a usurper', in the
Little Known Chapter, says :-
"
What then is the significance of Mallikarjuna and
his Danaik Thimmanna's move to Penugonda on the business
of Narasinga's kingdom? Was it jealousy of the rising power
of the chief, or was it the suspicion engendered by incapa-
city at Headquarters? It may be either or both." A third
alternative will be seen from the above discussion to be
possible--namely, the minority or youth of Narasimha and
the peril to his kingdom from the invasion by the Orissa
king Kapilesvara. Dr. Krishnaswami Ayyangar has observ-
ed that the earlier inscriptions of Narasimha acknowledge
the suzerainty of Mallikarjuna, and it is Virupaksha's name
that appears but sparingly afterwards.
4. The verse of the Sripadarājāshtaka quoted in the
beginning of this note may, in the light of the foregoing
discussion, be taken to refer to an incident of circa 1476
A.D., after Saluva Narasimha I had returned from Kalinga.
This agrees well with the conclusion in the text of the
Introduction (see para 90).
B.
The
It will be seen that Somanatha in his Introduction
invokes the blessings of the Ten Avatars of Vishnu.
Buddha is not one of the Avatars so contemplated. Some
scholars think that the omission of Buddha by Somanatha
from the ten Avatars is an indication that Somanatha was
not a Vaishnava. Again at page 68 of the Sanskrit
text, Somanatha says, speaking of Krishna Devaraya's
time, that all Brahmans placing their faith in Vishnu.