The Rashtrakutas and their Times c11.8

c11.8

But the relations of Vijayāditya III with the Rāṣṭrakūṭas after his defeat by the latter are still a great mystery. The Idar plates inform us that Vijayāditya III attacked the Gangas at the instigation of the lord of the Raṭṭas, cut off the head of Maṅgi in battle, frightened Kṛṣṇa and his ally Sankila, and burnt their capital whose name, however, is not stated.(6) The killing of Maṅgi was an undoubted historic fact; it is referred to in several eastern Chalukyan records(7) and the Musulipattan plates of Vijayāditya III himself record a grant to a Brahmana, Vinayādiśarman by name, who had suggested to the grantor the way to kill Maṅgi(8) while the battle was raging. From the Maliyapundi grant we learn that Maṅgi was a Nolamba chief, and that Saṅkila, who had joined with fierce Vallabha was a ruler of Dahāla country.(9) The same grant tells us that the city burnt was Kiraṇapura and that Kṛṣṇa was staying there at that time.(10) The Pithapuram inscription(11) of Mallapadeva, however, states that Vijayāditya burnt Chakrakota, frightened Saṅkila (who was residing at Kiraṇa-