The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts c6.s1.20

c6.s1.20

Vikramāditya was succeeded in A.D. 746 by his son Kirtivarman II., of whose time we have but two inscriptions, in A.D. 754 and 757 respectively. The second is on a column at Paṭṭadakal, between the temples of Vijayēśvara, Lōkēśvara and Trailokyēśvara, and records their erection. He made grants to Jaina temples. From this time forward there is a break in the records of the family, but from other sources it may be gathered that their neighbours, the Rāshṭrakūṭas, swept down upon them from the north and dispossessed them of their kingdom. For the next two hundred years the family, driven into the southernmost corner of their former territory, within the confines of the present Maisur province, probably lived on, in genteel poverty, in possession of a very small estate—too small, in fact, to cause the Rāshṭrakūṭas any uneasiness for many years to come.