Although the Teloogoo would thus appear to have been a cultivated language at a very early period, it is hardly to be expected, among the different political and religious convulsions which have so often violently agitated the Deccan, that many of the productions of so remote an age should have reached these times. Accordingly, with the exception of the abovementioned works of Nunniah Bhutt, and some books composed towards the close of the twelfth century, during the reign of Pertaub Roodroo, one of the last kings of the Bellal dynasty, which succeeded that of Cadumba, we find that nearly all the Teloogoo works now current in the country were written after the dissolution of the ancient government of Telingana, and the establishment of the more modern empire of Vidianagara.
On the capture of Warunkul,[1] the capital of the Bellal Kings of Telingana, by the Pattans, A. D. 1323, certain officers of these ancient princes are stated to have emigrated to the southern provinces, where they founded the celebrated city of Vidianagara or Vizianagara, the Bijanagur of Arrowsmith, and established a new dynasty of twenty princes[2] known by the name of Raya or Royaloo, who gradually extended their sway all over the South of India, and reigned from the commencement of the fourteenth to the close of the sixteenth century. Of these kings, the most celebrated was Krishna Royaloo, a prince who reigned during the earlier part of the sixteenth century. He is highly renowned in Telingana for his piety in repairing the numerous temples in the Carnatick,
- ↑ This word is pure Teloogoo ఒరుకల్లు, and signifies a single stone, a solid rock, or perhaps ఒరకల్లు a touch stone.
- ↑ I am indebted to the friendship of that able and distinguished officer Colonel McKenzie C. B. of the Madras Engineers, now Surveyor General of India, for the following translation of an extract from the Gutpurtee Manuscript in his valuable and extensive collection, containing, in the form of a prophecy, a chronological account of these kings. Numerous inscriptions, and grants of land, in the possesion of Colonel McKenzie confirm the correctness of this account.
A. S. A. D. Y. M. D.
1258 1336 1. In the Saleevahan Sakum, 1258, in the year Daatoo, on the 2d of Vysakum month, on the new moon, Hurryhur Raya will commence his reign at Anagoondy. 1. The whole of his reign will be 14 14„ 14„ 1272 1350 2. After him, his brother Booka Royaloo will succeed in that kingdom and will reign 29 8 8„ 1301 1379 3. Next Hurryhur Royaloo the second will rule 22 22„ 22„ 1323 1401 4. After him Veejaya Booka Royaloo will rule 17 17„ 17„ 1340 1418 5. Upon his death Palla Booka Royaloo will rule 16 16„ 16 1356 1434 6. After which Gunda Dava Royaloo will rule 20 20„ 20„ 1376 1454 7. After him Raja Saker Royaloo will rule 20„ 9 9„ 1376 1455 8. After that Veejoyooloo will rule 20„ 10 10„ 1378 1456 9. Proudha or Pratapa Dava Royaloo will rule 21 21„ 21„ 1399 1477 10. After him Veera Royaloo will rule 4 4„ 4„ 1403 1481 11. After him Mallicar Royaloo will govern 6 6„ 6„ 1409 1487 12. Ramachundra Royaloo will next rule 1 1„ 1„ 1410 1488 13. Veeroopacha Royaloo will govern 2 2„ 2„ 1412 1490 14. Narasinga Royaloo will rule 5 5„ 5„ 1417 1495 15. After him Naraxa Royaloo will rule (including 5 years in the name of) 13 13„ 13„ 1426 1504 16. His son Veera Narsimha Royaloo from the Cycle years Raktachee A. S. 1426 13 13„ 13„ 1430 1509 17. The second son of Narasa Royaloo, named Krishna Royaloo, will rule, from the Cycle year Sookla of the Visaka month 21 21„ 21„ 1452 1530 18. From the Cycle year Veecrooty Achoota Dava Royaloo will reign 12 12„ 12„ 1464 1542 19. From thence Salica Timma Rauze, from the beginning of the Cycle year Soobacroot in the Jasta month, Rama Royaloo will rule 22 years in the name of 22 22„ 22„ 1486 1564 20. Sadasevoo Royaloo and keeping him in his possession, the Kingdom of Veejeyanagur will then end with Rama Royaloo. 1451 1569 20. The country will be in great confusion then for 5 5„ 5„ 1451 1569 21. In the Cycle year Pramodoota Teroomal Royaloo will establish himself as King, at Penoogonda, and will rule 5„ 11 11„ 1494 1572 22. His son Sree Runga Royaloo will then reign from the Cycle year Angeerasa of the 10th of Vysakam 14 14„ 14„ 1507 1585 23. After which, from the Cycle Paardeva of the 10th of Maugum of the full moon Vencataputty Royaloo will rule 28 8 15 23. After him, of the Kings of Chundra race none will remain; and foreign kings will rule the land, deriving their authority from no legal right 1536 1614 24. First Chicka Royaloo will rule 28„ 4 4„ 1552 1630 25. After him Rama Rauze changing his true name, to that of Ramodava Rayel for 15 5 5„ 25. After this, the Country will be in great disorder for some time, and prodigies and portentous omens will appear between the year Bahoodanya and Nundana 15 15„ 15„ (Here the Account terminates in a prophetical annunciation of a Deliverer of the Hindoo Race.) From circumstances, observes Colonel Mc‘Kenzie, we may infer that this account was written A. D. 1630.
