History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c22.61

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The only certain points in the chronology of the Somavaṁśis is that they are later than one of the two Śilabhañjas of the first Bhañja dynasty; and as Satrubhañja I was ruling in V. S., 800-744 A. D., they are also certainly later than Ranabhañja I. As Govinda III of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa dynasty of the Mahārāṣṭra was the contemporary of Chandragupta the fifth in ascent from Mahābhavagupta I Janamejaya, the accession of that prince cannot be placed earlier than the middle of the 10th century A. D. The certain dates of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa Govinda III vary from 794 to 814 A. D. We have to account for the reigns of Chandragupta's son Harshagupta, grandson Mahāśivagupta II, Mahābhavagupta and Mahāśivagupta or Śivagupta the father of Mahābhavagupta Janamejaya. We have then to account for four distinct generations between the demise of Chandragupta some time in the beginning of the 9th century A. D., and the rise of Mahābhavagupta, which we can place tentatively about a century later or in the beginning of the 10th century A. D. The accession of Mahāśivagupta-Yayāti cannot therefore be placed earlier than the middle of the 10th.