Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.29

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Govinda III thus acquired a large extent of territory and established his supremacy over a number of kings He appears to have become the paramount sovereign of the whole country from Mâlvâ in the north to Kâñchîpura in the south, and to have under his immediate sway the country between the Narmadâ and the Tungabhadrâ The Vanî-Diṇḍorî plates convey a village situated in the Nâsik district, while those found in the Kânarese country assign some land near the Tungabhadrâ The province of Lâṭa, situated between the Mahî and the lower Tâpî, was assigned by him to his brother Indra,²⁶ who became the founder of another branch of the dynasty Govinda III, as stated in the Baroda grant, made and unmade kings His secondary names as found in his own grants were Prabhûtavarsha or "Raining profusely," Pṛithvîvallabha or "the Lover of the Earth," and Śrî-Vallabha Others will be noticed below The Baroda grant was issued by Karka, the son of it was he who founded it and made it the capital of the dynasty cannot be clearly made out from that grant, as the reading given by Mr Wathen is corrupt But the Wardhâ plates are clear on the point In them the successor of Jagattunga is called Nṛipatunga, and he is represented to have founded the city of Mânyakheṭa, which "put the [68] city of the gods" to shame Mânyakheṭa has been properly identified with Mâlkhed in the Nizam's territory In the Kânheri caves there are three inscriptions, in which the reigning paramount sovereign is represented to be Amoghavarsha In one of them Pullasakti of the Śilâhâra family, and in the other two his son, Kapardin, are mentioned as his dependents ruling over Konkan, which province had been assigned to them by Amoghavarsha The dates occurring in the last two are Śaka 775 and 799 ²⁹ An inscription at Sirur in the Dhârvâḍ district published by Dr Fleet is dated Śaka 788, *vyaya*, which is represented as the fifty-second year of the reign of Amoghavarsha,³⁰ so that the year 799 Śaka of the Kânheri inscription must have been the sixty-third of his reign The cyclic year *vyaya* corresponds to the Śaka year 788 *past* and 789 *current* This prince appears thus to have begun to reign in Śaka 737 *past* In a historical appendix at the end of a Jaina work entitled Uttarapurâṇa, or the latter half of the Mahâpurâṇa, by Guṇabhadra, Amoghavarsha is represented to have been a devoted worshipper of a holy Jaina saint named Jinasena, who was the preceptor of Guṇabhadra, and wrote the Âdipurâṇa or the first part of the same work³¹ Jinasena himself at the end of his poem the Pârśvâbhyudaya gives expression to a wish that Amoghavarsha may reign for a long time An important work on the philosophy of the Digambara Jainas entitled Jayadhavalâ is represented at the end to have been composed when 759 years of the Śaka king had elapsed, in the reign of Amoghavarsha In the introductory portion of a Jaina mathematical work entitled Sârasaṃgraha by Vîrâchârya, Amoghavarsha is highly praised for his power and his virtues, and is spoken of as a follower of the Jaina doctrine (Syâdvâda)³² He is mentioned there also by his other name Nṛipatuṅga The authorship of a small tract consisting of questions and answers on moral subjects, entitled Praśnottara-ratnamâlikâ, which has