Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.48

c18.48

pupil of Gunabhadra, who was the author of the second part In the historical appendix, "the lofty elephants of Akâlavarsha" are represented "to have drunk the waters of the Ganges rendered fragrant by being mixed with the humour flowing from their temples, and, as if not having their thirst quenched, to have resorted to the Kaumâra forest (in the extreme south), which was full of sandal trees set in gentle motion by the breezes blowing over the sea waves, and into the shade of which the rays of the sun did not penetrate "³⁹ The date 833 Śaka has also been assigned to Akâlavarsha ⁴⁰ It will have been seen that an inscription at Saundatti represents Krishnarâja to have been the reigning prince in Śaka 797, while one in the Kânheri caves speaks of his father Amoghavarsha as being on the throne two years later, *i c*, in 799 This discrepancy must be due to the fact mentioned in the Ratnamâlikâ that the latter had abdicated the throne in his old age The real reigning prince therefore in Śaka 797 and 799 must have been Akâlavarsha his son, but the writer of the Kânheri inscription must in the latter year have put in Amoghavarsha's name, as he was not dead, and his having abdicated had probably no significance in his eyes