Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c20.26

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kingdoms? First evidently, that of Jhañjha, her father, who is spoken of in the first line, and secondly, that of the Râshṭrakûṭas from whose race she is spoken of as having sprung in the second line Now, we must expect some allusion to the third kingdom in the third line The third kingdom was clearly that of the Yâdavas into whose family she had been married I, therefore, read यदन्वया० for यदन्वया० and thus the difficulty about the metre is removed, the य becoming prosodially long in consequence of the following द्ध In the same manner I think बालगनाम is a mistake for बालज्ञान The word ज्ञान the writer must have taken from his vernacular and considered it a Sanskrit word, or probably not knowing Sanskrit well, he must have formed it from the root जन् on the analogy of माद from मद्, गाद from गद्, मान from मन् &c Or बालगनाज may be considered as a mistake for बालजन्म, the sense being the same, viz "birth of a child" The compound यदन्वयाधारिता is to be dissolved as आधारिता यदन्वय यया। आधारिता being made the second member according to Pāṇini II 2, 37 Or, the line may be read as या याता नवबालअग्रसमर्थे यदन्वयाधारता, the dot over ता being omitted by mistake, and याना written as साता in consequence of the usual confusion between य and स The translation of the line, therefore, is "who became the upholder of the race of Yadu on the occasion of the birth of a new child," i e through her child she became the upholder of the Yadava race In this manner the supposition of her being adopted by the Râshṭrakûṭas during the young prince's minority becomes groundless She must have belonged to the Râshṭrakûṭa race on her mother's side Tailapa, and thus it follows that the Yâdava prince Bhillama II assisted Tailapa in his war with Muñja which we have already noticed Vaddiga was a follower of Kṛishṇa III of the Râshṭrakûṭa family, whose latest known date is 881 Śaka, and Bhillama II of Tailapa The date 922 Śaka of Bhillama's grant is consistent with these facts The Yâdavas appear thus to have transferred their allegiance from the old to the new dynasty of paramount sovereigns as soon as it rose to power The next king was Vesugî¹³ called in Paṇḍit Bhagvânlâl's grant Tesuka, which is a mistake or misreading for Vesuka or Vesuga He married Nâyaladevî, the daughter of Gogı, who is styled a feudatory of the Châlukya family,¹⁴ and was perhaps the same as the successor of the Ṭhânâ prince Jhañjha The Râshṭrakûṭas must have been overthrown by the Châlukyas about the end of Jhañjha's reign, and thus his successor became a feudatory of the Châlukyas