Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.67

c18.67

⁵³ Dr Fleet, following Mr Wathen's translation, makes Kṛishṇa, whom he calls Kṛishṇa III, the elder brother of Amoghavarsha and thus a son of Jagattunga But in the Khârepâṭan grant he is distinctly represented as the son of Baddiga who was the son of Jagattunga, and in the on the throne from 867 to 878 Saka, that is, before his elder brother Kṛishṇa, therefore, was the elder of the two as stated in the Khârepâṭan grant, and Khoṭṭika the younger Dr Fleet, however, being under the belief that this last was the elder brother, gives the following explanation of the discrepancy in the dates — "Koṭṭiga or Khoṭṭiga left no issue, and this explains why the date of his inscription now published is considerably later than the dates obtained for Kṛishṇa IV, viz, there being no probability of Koṭṭiga leaving any issue, first his younger brother Kṛishṇa IV was joined with him in the government and then the latter's son Kakka III"—(Ind Ant, Vol XII, p 255) This supposition is not supported by any circumstance, on the contrary it is utterly discountenanced by the inscriptions of Kṛishṇa which represent him to be the "Supreme king of great kings," (Ind Ant, Vol XII, p 258) and to have been reigning at the time at Mânya kheṭa and governing the kingdom (Ind Ant, Vol I, p 210) Otherwise, they would have spoken of him as *Yuvarâja* Thus there were not two Kṛishṇas but only one He was the son of Baddiga or Amoghavarsha, not his brother His earliest date is that of the Wardhâ grant, *i c*, 862 Saka and the latest 881 that of the Yaśastilaka He was the same monarch as that spoken of in the Saloṭgi and other stone inscriptions bearing the dates 867, 873, and 878 Śaka Khoṭṭiga was his younger brother, and Nirupama the youngest