Adhava and Dadiga
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Adhava and Dadiga (also spelled Madhāva and Dādiga by modern scholars) are legendary ancestral figures associated with the foundation of the Western Ganga dynasty, which ruled parts of southern India—particularly the Gangavadi region (modern southern Karnataka)—between the 4th and 10th centuries CE. They are frequently mentioned in later Ganga inscriptions and genealogical traditions as the progenitors or symbolic founders of the dynasty.