The Rashtrakutas and their Times c11.s2.20

c11.s2.20

Though Amoghavarsha III may not have himself prompted the rebellion, it is quite probable that his ambitious son Kṛṣṇa and other partisans may have worked hard to exploit the situation in order to secure the crown for him. Both Amoghavarsha III and Kṛṣṇa III had married Chedi princesses as shown already. We may, therefore, well accept the statement of the spurious Sudi plates that Amoghavarsha was staying at Tripuri, when Būtuga II married his daughter.(69) It is, therefore, not unlikely that the Chedi ruler Yuvarāja I, who was Amoghavarsha's father-in-law, may have helped his son-in-law, who was an exile at his court, by joining the confederacy that aimed at placing Amoghavarsha upon the Malkhed throne. In the Viddhas'ālabhañjikā of Rājaśekhara, who was late in his life residing at the Chedi court, (70) we seem to get an echo of this confederacy. The drama is a love story of the usual type; but it is fairly certain that its hero Karpūravarsha Yuvarāja is the same as Keyūravarsha Yuvarāja I, who was the father-in-law of Amoghavarsha III. In Act II of this drama we are told that a king of Kuntala, Caṇḍamahāsena by name, was residing at the Chedi court as an exile from his own kingdom, and towards the conclusion of the IVth Act, we are informed that the Chedi forces, which were espousing the cause of the exile king of Kuntala, were successful against the enemy in a battle fought on the banks of the Payoṣṇī, a tributary of the Tapti, and that the exile prince was crowned king of his own country. There is some difficulty in accepting these obiter dicta of Rājas'ekhara as referring to Amoghavarsha's accession: Rājas'ekhara does not retain the real names of the actors in these historic events. He names the exile Kuntala chief once as Vīrapāla (Act IV) and once as Caṇḍamahāsena (Act II). Keyūravars'a's marriage with Vīrapāla's daughter