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Krishna Devaraya (see para 84 of the Madras Epigraphi-
cal Report for 1922--23).
 
M.
 
Para 159 of the Introduction :-
 
The literary works in Sanskrit and Kannada of which
Sri Vyasaraya and Vadiraja are the authors, are being actu-
ally studied even to-day. Purandara Dasa's and Kanaka
Dasa's Kannada works also live to-day. Kumara Vyasa, the
author of the Kannada Mahabharata, probably lived in
the same period and was probably a Vaishnava Brahman
of the Madhva school, as stated by Pandit Shamachar
in the Introduction to his edition of Kumara Vyasa's
Mahabharata published by the Oriental Library of Mysore.
Rao Bahadur Mr. R. Narasimhachar in Vol. II of his Karnata-
ka Kavicharite, says that Kumara Vyasa was probably a
Veerasaiva living in about 1430 A.D. It is not unusual to
claim Brahmans as non-Brahmans. Kalamegha discussed in
the Introduction appears to be so claimed from the informa-
tion kindly supplied to me, by Mr. Chengalvaroyan,
Tamil Pandit of Mallesvaram High School. The object of
the claim in such cases is probably to use the work of the
author, without scruples of conscience which may exist, if
the author belonged to a different community.
 
N.
 
Para 118 of the Introduction:-
 
Probably in spite of all that Nuniz has said, Immadi
Narasimha quietly accepted a subordinate position and was
not murdered at all. In the Madras Epigraphical Report
for 1909-10 in para 54, the Epigraphist remarks that the
Devulapalli plates dated in Saka 1427=1504 A.D. assign