The Orissa Historical Research Journal April 1953

Narasiinha II Vajapeyf (adorned the court of Mukunda Deva.) The gene.tlogical table given by Narasiinha in Nityachara Pradipct is more elaborate than that given in tile Va m§avalf the main difference being the omission of the name of uopinatha son of.Mrtyufijaya I the progenitor of this family in the latter The latter also omits the names of the four younger brothers of Nrsiinh.a I six sons [...] Thus Nar Sing of the Ain who was one of the learned men of the time of Akbar and who became very famous in the second half of the sixteenth century is to be identified with Narashnlia Vajapeyi of 0 ssa. [...] This might imply that he subjugated all the Kshatriya-houses which ruled conte:npraneously with the S Likulagas viz the Aileslivakus tae Pafichalas the Kasi3 the H td-iyas the Ka ifi;as the Min tkas the Kurus the Maitailas the garaienai the Vitihotras etc. [...] The fact that his dominions touched the Beas river in the East Punjab might support vast conquests of the Nandas Conquests of some of the territories occupied by the trib s and clans mentioned above does not necc.isarily mean the total extinction of the old ruling houses but merely a deptevatioa of their ya§a i.e glory and an extensbn of suzerainty of the conqueror. [...] The Jainas too allude to wide dom:nions of the Nand 13.1 The existence on Godavari river of a city called N Lu-Natila Dehra (Nander) also sug ;gists that the Nanda-d3miaions once embraced a considirable portion of the Deccan and therefore of the Kaliiiga country also.' References to Nandaraja considered With the Nanda family we reach a stage of the East Indian History when the indub table eviden