The Rashtrakutas and their Times c12.s1.19

c12.s1.19

The above analysis of the Deoli plates makes it absolutely clear that the restoration of Būtuga to the Gāṅga throne, and the capture of Chitrakūṭa and Kālañjara were the achievements of Kṛṣṇa while yet a crown-prince. It may also be pointed out that Amoghavarsha was alive on the 3rd of December 939 A.D.⁹ and that all the above campaigns in southern and central India could not have been physically possible within a period of four months. And yet we shall have to assume that such was the case, if we are to hold that these campaigns were subsequent to his accession; for the Deoli plates, issued by Kṛṣṇa in May 940 mention all these achievements of his. The title *Paramabhaṭṭāraka Parameśvara-mahārājādhirāja* given by the Jura record to Kṛṣṇa III would not go against my hypothesis. The *praśasti* may have been composed and inscribed a few years later, and in the meanwhile Kṛṣṇa may have succeeded his father and conquered Tanjore and Kanchi. It is also possible that Kṛṣṇa may have undertaken a second expedition in Baghelkhand after his accession, when the Jura inscription may have been inscribed.