Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.11

c18.11

Dantidurga died childless according to a grant found at Kardâ,⁸ and his paternal uncle Krishṇarâja succeeded to the throne. Another grant found at Baroda⁹ omits the name of Dantidurga, since the object of the writer was simply to give the pedigree of the reigning monarch, with reference to whom Dantidurga was but a collateral, and not to give the names of all the previous kings In that grant Kṛishṇarâja is spoken of as having "rooted out" a prince belonging to the same family with himself who had taken to evil ways and to have himself assumed the task of governing for the "benefit of his race " The prince dethroned or destroyed by Kṛishṇarâja could not have been Dantidurga, as has been supposed by some writers, since he was a powerful monarch who for the first time acquired supreme sovereignty for his family In a grant found at Kâvî, and another found in the Navasârî district, Kṛishṇa is represented to have succeeded to the throne after Dantidurga's death ¹⁰ The prince whom he set aside, therefore, must either have been a son of Dantidurga or some other person with a better claim to the throne than himself The statement of the Kardâ plate that Dantidurga died childless may be discredited as being made two hundred years after the occurrence