The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.s1.10

c8.s1.10

A verse occurring in four records of the Gujrat branch⁴¹ states that Kṛṣṇa obtained the title of *Rājādhirājaparameśvara* after defeating Rāhappa who had become inflated with pride about his strength. This Rāhappa must have been different from the relative, whom Kṛṣṇa had ousted, for he is nowhere described as a relative of Kṛṣṇa. He cannot be, therefore, Karka of the Antroli-Chharoli record. The present state of our knowledge, however, does not enable us to identify this potentate with certainty. A ruler of Mewar, bearing that name, is known to have flourished in c. 1200 A.D.; an inscription from the same province, dated 725 A.D., refers itself to the rule of *Mahārājādhirāja Parameśvara* Śrī-Dhavalappadeva.⁴² It may thus appear that in some of the ruling families of Mewar, names ending in *ppa* were current, and it is not impossible that Rāhappa, the opponent of Kṛṣṇa I, may have been a ruler in Mewar, possibly a hitherto unknown son or successor of king Dhavalappa just referred to. It has also to be remembered that the last part of the name Rāhappa bears a Canarese appearance, and since Kṛṣṇa I is said to have obtained the imperial position after defeating Rāhappa, it is not impossible that Rāhappa may have been either another name of Kīrtivarman, or a *biruda* of the contemporary Vengi ruler Viṣṇuvardhana defeated by his heir-apparent. It must, however, be confessed that in the present state of our knowledge no identification, that can be unreservedly accepted, can be proposed.