The Rashtrakutas and their Times c26.2

c26.2

P. 85. The statement in the book that Dantivarman had succeeded his elder brother Dhruva II was based on the fact that there was a long interval of 21 years between the last known date of Dhruva II and the first known date of his successor Kṛṣṇa. Recently, however, a new grant of Dhruva II has come to light, which I am editing for the *Epigraphia Indica*, and which reduces this interval to a period of less than four years. The passage giving the date is in words, but is defective; it reads शकनृपकालातीतसंवत्सरशतेषु षडुत्तरेषु. The word for the number of centuries is omitted by inadvertence, but there can be no doubt that the expression was intended to be संवत्सरशतत्रयेषु. This record thus supplies 884 A.D. as the latest date for Dhruva II. It, therefore, now looks extremely improbable that Dantivarman could have reigned between Dhruva II and Kṛṣṇa Akālavarṣa II. In my paper on this plate I have adduced reasons to show that Kṛṣṇa Akālavarṣa II was very probably a son of his predecessor Dhruva II and not of his brother Dantivarman.