The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.s1.13

c8.s1.13

Kṛṣṇa was a mature man of about 45 when he succeeded his nephew in c. 756. He had very probably participated in many of the campaigns of his nephew, and it is very probable that the final defeat of Kīrtivarman was his achievement. For Kīrtivarman was holding his own in Karnatak as late as 757 A.D., i. e. three years after the last known date of Dantidurga and one year before the first known date of Kṛṣṇa I. The Bharata Itihasa Samshodhak Mandala plates of Kṛṣṇa, issued in September 758, do not refer to his defeat of the Chālukyas; it is probable that the event was yet to take place then. But not much later than that date he must have completed the Chālukya overthrow, and annexed the southern part of that kingdom.