The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.345

c8.345

A.D. 930, May 10. The Cambay copper-plate grant relates that on this day the Rāshṭrakūṭa king Gōvinda IV weighed himself against gold at Kapitthaka on the Godavari river and gave away 600 villages as Brahman Agrahārams, and 800 villages to various temples. The pedigree of the family is given. About king Krishna II, Akālavarsha, the record states that in his day ‘his enemies abandoned Mānyakhēṭa.’ This confirms the E. Chālukya story which runs to the effect that their king Guṇaka-Vijayāditya had burnt Mānyakhēṭa (for Malkhēḍ). The date of this ‘burning’ must have been between A.D. 878 and 888, which last year was the last of the reign of Guṇaka-Vijayāditya. The ‘abandonment’ must have taken place before A.D. 913, which was Krishna II’s last year. (E. I. vii, 26. See above s.v. A.D. 846-47.)