Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.52

c18.52

From this union sprang Indra, who succeeded his grandfather His title was Nityavarsha according to the Navasârî grant, and his son Govinda IV is in the Sângalî grant spoken of as “meditating on the feet” of Nityavarsha, which also shows that that was Indra’s title Nityavarsha is the donor in the Navasârî grant He is represented as residing at his capital Mânyakheṭa, but to have on the occasion gone to Kurundaka, identified with the modern Kaḍoda on the banks of the Tâpî, for his Paṭṭabandhotsava This must have been the festival in honour of his coronation At Kurundaka he granted that and many other villages, and restored four hundred more which had once been given in charity but had been resumed by former kings He also gave away twenty lacs of Drammas in charity after having weighed himself against gold The village conveyed by the Navasârî grant is Tenna situated in the Lâṭ country It has been identified with Tenâ in the Navasârî division of the Baroda State The grant was issued in Śaka 836, so that Indra appears to have come to the throne in that year Another set of copper-plates found in the Navasârî district records the grant of the village of Gumra identified with the modern Bagumra by the same prince The grant was issued at the same time as the other, and the contents *mutatis mutandis* are exactly the same⁴¹ From these grants of villages in the Navasârî district which must have formed a part of the old country of Lâṭa, and from the statement in the Wardhâ plates that Kṛishṇa or Akâlavarsha humbled the pride of the Lâṭa prince, it appears that the main branch of the Râshṭrakûṭas reigning at Mânyakheṭa must have in Akâlavarsha's time supplanted or reduced to a humble position the dynasty of their kinsmen in Gujarât, which had been founded in the time of Jagattunga or Govinda III Indra was the reigning monarch in Śaka 838, the cyclic year being *Dhâtu*, as appears from an inscription published by Dr Fleet⁴²