Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c21.56

c21.56

Siṅghaṇa's son was Jaitugı or Jaitrapâla, who "was the abode of all arts, and was thus the very moon in opposition, full of all the digits, that had come down to the earth, to protect it He was death to hostile kings and firm in unequal fights "³⁶ But if he protected the earth at all he must have done so during the lifetime of his father as *Yuvarâja*, for the latest date of Siṅghaṇa is Śaka 1169, and in a copperplate inscription of his grandson and Jaitugı's son Kṛishṇa, Śaka 1175, *Pramâdı-Saṁvatsara*, is stated to be the seventh of his reign, so that Kṛishṇa began to reign in Śaka 1169 corresponding to 1247 A D ³⁷ And in the longer of the two historical introductions to the Vratakhaṇḍa, Jaitugi is not mentioned at all After Siṅghaṇa, we are told that his grandsons Kṛishṇa and Mahâdeva came to the throne, of whom the elder Kṛishṇa reigned first ³⁸ Kṛishṇa's Prâkṛit name was Kaṇhâra, Kanhara, or Kandhâra He is represented to have been the terror of the kings of Mâlava, Gujarât, and Konkan, to have "established the king of Teluṅga," and to have been the sovereign of the country of the Chola king ³⁹ In the Vrata-khaṇḍa also he is said to have destroyed the army of Vîsala, who we know was sovereign of Gujarât at this time and who had been at war with Siṅghaṇa, and, in general terms, to have "conquered a great many enemies in bloody battles in which numbers of horses and elephants were engaged, reduced some to captivity and compelled others to seek refuge in forests, and, having thus finished the work of vanquishing the series of earthly kings, to have marched to the heavenly world to conquer Indra" ⁴⁰ Lakshmîdeva, son of Janârdana, is represented by his wise counsels to have helped Kṛishṇa to consolidate his power and to have by his sword subdued his enemies ⁴¹ Kṛishṇa performed a great many sacrifices