The Rashtrakutas and their Times c11.s1.1

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Kṛshṇa II was succeeded by his grandson Indra III. His son Jagattuṅga had predeceased him; both the Karhad (34) and Deoli (35) plates of Kṛshṇa III inform us that Jagattuṅga was taken to heaven by the Creator before his accession to the throne, as if at the pressing request of the heavenly damsels. Nausari plates (36) of Indra III describe him as meditating on the feet of Akālavarsha, showing that Indra III was the successor of Kṛshṇa II, and not of his own father Jagattuṅga. The latest known date of Kṛshṇa II is 912 A.D.; (37) but the aged emperor lived for two years more. He died towards the close of 914 A.D.; for we know from the Nausari plates of Indra III that he had gone to Kurundhaka (38) from his capital Mānyakheṭa on the 7th day of the bright half of Phālguna, S'aka 836 (24-2-915 A.D.) for the purpose of Paṭṭabandhotsava or coronation ceremony. Since on this occasion Indra granted afresh four hundred villages resumed by previous rulers, it must obviously have been the time of his formal coronation. His accession, which was a peaceful one, could not therefore have taken place much earlier.