The Rashtrakutas and their Times c10.25

c10.25

The success of Amoghavarsha against the Vengi forces has to be placed sometime about 860 A.D., when he had emerged successful from the preoccupations above referred to. The king of Vengi defeated by him was then Guṇaga Vijayāditya (c. 844-c. 888 A.D.). It is no doubt true that the Idar grant, above referred to, states that after defeating the Gangas and killing Mangi, this ruler had frightened Kṛṣṇa and burnt his city, the name of which is given as Kiraṇapura in the Maliapundi grant;(14) this incident, however, refers to the reign of Kṛṣṇa II and not to that of his father Amoghavarsha I. The statement in the Rāṣṭrakūṭa records, that Amoghavarsha finally inflicted a crushing defeat upon the Vengi opponent is supported by some of the Cālukya records themselves. The Idar grant, above mentioned, observes that after the time of Guṇaga Vijayāditya, the Vengi kingdom was occupied by Rāṣṭrakūṭa forces(15) and that Bhīma had to reconquer it from Kṛṣṇa II, sometime after his own accession in c. 888 A.D. The claim of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa records to a crushing victory over Vengi is then correct, and we may place it sometime about c. 860 A.D.