Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.109

c18.109

At the end of a work entitled Saṁkshepaśârîraka, the author Sarvajñâtman, the pupil of Sureśvara, who himself was a pupil of the great Śaṁkarâchârya, states that he composed it while "the prosperous king of the Kshatriya race, the Âditya (sun) of the race of Manu whose orders were never disobeyed, was ruling over the earth "³ This description would apply with propriety to such a king as Âdityavarman, Vikramâditya I, Vinayâditya, Vijayâditya, or Vikramâditya II of the early Châlukya dynasty, since they were very powerful princes and were "Âdityas of the race of Manu " For the Mânavya race to which they belonged may be understood as "the race of Manu " But Śaṁkarâchârya is said to have lived between Śaka 710 and 742, wherefore his grand-pupil must have flourished about the year 800 of that era, while Vikramâditya II, the latest of the four, ceased to reign in 669 Śaka Supposing then that the date assigned to Śaṁkarâchârya is correct, the king meant by Sarvajñâtman must be one of those placed by the Mîraj grant between Kîrtivarman II and Tailapa He may be Vikramâditya, the third prince after Kîrtivarman II,⁴ but if the description is considered hardly applicable to a minor chief, Śaṁkarâchârya's date must be pushed backwards so as to place the pupil of his pupil in the reign of one of the five princes of the early Châlukya dynasty mentioned above