Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c18.68

c18.68

Kṛishṇarâja was the reigning monarch in Śaka 873 and 878⁵⁴ At the end of a Jaina work called Yaśastilaka by Somadeva it is stated that it was finished on the 13th of Chaitra when 881 years of the era of the Śaka king had elapsed, the cyclic year being Siddhârthin, during the reign of a feudatory of Kṛishṇarâjadeva Kṛishṇarâjadeva is spoken of as reigning gloriously, having subdued the Pâṇḍyas, Siṁhala, the Cholas, the Cheras and others⁵⁵ Khoṭika, his brother, was on the throne in Śaka 893 Prajâpatı⁵⁶