The Rashtrakutas and their Times c11.30

c11.30

may have, when in difficulty, invoked the aid of his mighty brother-in-law, whose territories were contiguous to his own, rather than that of a petty feudatory, living hundreds of miles from the battle-field. Nor can Sankila's ally be Kṛṣṇarāja, the founder of the Paramāra dynasty, firstly because he was not a ruling prince in c. 880 A.D., and secondly because he did not bear the epithet of Vallabha. The only Kṛṣṇarāja, then, who flourished in c. 880 A.D., and who could have participated in Sankila's battles near Chakrakūṭa and Kiraṇapura, is the Rāṣṭrakūṭa emperor Kṛṣṇa II, who was Sankila's brother-in-law. The verse in the foot-note No. 11 does not go against this identification; for Vallabhendra in clause (c) of that verse need not be taken as different from Kṛṣṇa in clause (b); the verse is to be translated as follows:—"Who (Vijayāditya III) burnt Chakrakūṭa, frightened Sankila staying in Kiraṇapura and joined by Kṛṣṇa, acquainted (lit. united) Vallabhendra (i. e. Kṛṣṇa II) with his (i. e. Vajayāditya's) own prowess (by defeating him), and took away the elephants from the Kalinga ruler."