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Could someone please explain why the entire page on "western ganga dynasty" was deleted. When i tried to pull up the page, it said "copyright" violation. Whoever tagged it as copyright violation obviously does not know that the "Western Ganga Dynasty" are the same as "Gangas of Kolar" and "Gangas of Talkad", just a different way of saying the same thing. Please reinstate the contents of "western Ganga Dynasty" that was eliminated. I dont care what you call it as, Gangas of Talkad, Gangas of Kolar or Western Ganga Dynasty". They are all the same dynasty. Most material in that page had been referenced from "History of Karnataka" - My Arthikaje and there was not copyright violation. I has explicity mentioned that reference also.

Dinesh Kannambadi.

[edit] Infobox for Ganga DynastyDineshkannambadi 00:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

I am creating an infobox for all the Western Ganga kings and will be doing a good amount of editing using the reference sources shown in the page. Please be reminded that all information has been carefully obtained from the sources WITHOUT infringing in copyrights. Any edits that are made must be made with proper reference sources. Any new information is welcome so long as it is accompanied with a reference source. Nothing can be deleted from the page without a discussion as the matter is valid. Alternate views of other historians are also welcome. As such, the contents of the page as of now are fully valid and quite accurate, just a bit inadequate and hence the effort to elaborate.

Dinesh Kannambadi

[edit] ON THE ORIGIN OF GANGAS

In the Tamil book Kongudesa Rajakkal (the kings of kongu(ganga) nadu),the 16th cent Jain author,Valasundara Kavirayar has mentioned Kongani(again called Kongani(Kongu+ani)-ruler of Kongans) as being coronated in Vijayaskandapuram or modernday Kangeyam(again Gangeyam or the seat of Gangas) in Erode dist of Tamilnadu.The language as Wilkins states of the southern part of the Mysore state is called Gangee, a dialect which is also called Kongu Tamil or modern Coimbatore Tamil.The dominant (upto 70%) of the population are the Kongu Vellala Gounders whose historicval name has been Gangakulam.In the Kirtararjuneeya,Durvinita is referred as king of Kongani.Today (please go to wikipedia section Kangeyam bull),the breeds of bulls from Kangeyam are referred as Kanganad bulls (Tamilised Ganganad).So we can assume that these kings were from the ruling Vokkaliga-Vellala farmer caste overlapping the bifurcation of Kannada and Tamil.I have various other references from authors like Arokiasamy on this topic. Pon Dheepankar K, Delhi UNiversity. (native:Erode dist,Tamilnadu) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by PONDHEEPANKAR (talk • contribs) 11:55, 8 February 2007 (UTC).