The Rashtrakutas and their Times c11.31

c11.31

Kṛṣṇa was not able to retrieve the situation after Vijayāditya's death. His successor Bhīma I claims to have defeated Kṛṣṇa and his Lāṭa and Karṇātaka allies in the battles of Niravadyapura and Peruvanguragrāma.²⁰ Bhīma had to pay rather heavily for his successes; for his eldest son, a lad of 16, was killed while fighting in this war. It may, however, be observed that Kṛṣṇa's authority remained supreme right up to Chitaldurg during the dark days of his Vengi and Gujrat wars; an inscription from Kadajji in Chitaldurg District, dated 889 A.D., refers to Kannaradeva's kingdom as extending on all sides.²¹