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15 principality established at Madura which issued coins of its own. One of these coins bears on its obverse the words "Ahsan Shah 735" (of Hijra, i, e., A. D., 1337-8) and the reverse "Al Hussiniyyu." One of the Sultans therefore seems to have been named Ahsan Shab, and since he lived in S¹ 1959, the person that should have suffered defeat and death at the hands of Kampana must be one of the successors of Absan Shah. It took for Kampana ten years after his conquest of Champaraya to attack and defeat the Sultan of the South. Ever since this signal victory, the whole of the peninsula south of the Tungabhadra became practically the possession of the Vijayanagara Empire. The barrier in the shape of the Empire of Vijayanagara, which was raised by the hand of Providence to protect the virgin south from that ravishment her sister Northern India had suffered at the merciless and vandalistic hands of the Muhammadans, continued in tact for over two centuries until the fateful year A. D. 1565, when the magnificent Empire was sbattered at the battle-field of Talikota by the confederacy of the Sultans of Bijapur, Golconda, etc., and the south became once again a prey to anarchy and disorder. Providence, at this jucture, ushered on the stage the British nation, who have once again reetored order and peace over the whole of India. One other fact worth noticing here is the mention of two sona of Bukka, both having the same name, Kampana. Insoriptions of Hiriya (or the elder)-Kampana and Chikka (or the younger)-Kampana are met with in the Madras Presidency and in the Mysore State. It has been the custom of the Epigraphists of the Madras Government to assign to the elder Kampana, son of Bukka, all the inscriptions which call the prince by the names Chikka-Kampsna, Kumara- Kampana, Vira-Bukkaraya Kumara-Kampana; similarly, all those which used the prefix Hiriya, etc., before the name of Kampana were assigned to his paternal uncle Kampana. Ep. da Rp, for 1903, Nos. 106 & 111.