The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.56

c8.56

being raised;(29) this statement, if not an exaggeration, would show that the overthrow of the Chālukya emperor was brought by strategem or treachery. Dantidurga was enabled by this victory to occupy Khandesh, Nasik, Poona, Satara and Kolhapur districts, as the findspot and the villages mentioned in the Samangad plates would show. Kīrtivarman, however, continued to hold sway in Karnatak right up to Sholapur even after this defeat. In 757 A.D. we find him encamped with his army at Bhadara-Gaviṭṭage,(30) a village on the northern bank of the Bhima in Sholapur district. Either Dantidurga or his successor Kṛṣṇa I soon completed the Chālukya overthrow. The second defeat, the whereabouts of which are still unknown, was decisive; for not only do we not find any record of Kīrtivarman subsequent to 757 A.D. but the records of the later Chālukyas themselves state expressly that the glory of the Chālukyas set with Kīrtivarman II.(31)