Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c21.73

c21.73

and the king of Mâlvâ also for the same reason installed a child in his position, and forthwith * * * losing all his possessions practised false penance for a long time. He took away in battle the elephants and the five musical instruments of the ruler of Tailaṅgaṇa, but left the ruler Rudramâ, as he refrained from killing a woman."⁴⁸ In a work on Poetics called Pratâparudrîya by Vidyânâtha there occurs a portion of a dramatic play in which Gaṇapati of the Kâkatîya dynasty, the same prince whose son is stated in the Paithan grant to have been released from confinement by Jaitugi, is mentioned as having left his throne to his daughter, whom, however, he called his son and named Rudra, and who is spoken of as "a king" and not queen. She adopted Pratâparudra the son of her daughter, as her heir. This, therefore, was the woman spoken of above as Rudramâ and as having been placed on the throne by the Andhras.⁴⁹ "Soma, the lord of Koṅkaṇ, though skilled in swimming in the sea, was together with his forces drowned in the rivers formed by the humour trickling from the temples of Mahâdeva's maddened elephants." "Mahâdeva deprived Someśvara of his kingdom and his life."⁵⁰ We have seen that Kṛishṇa fought with the king of Koṅkaṇ, but it appears he did not subjugate the country thoroughly. His successor Mahâdeva, however, again invaded it with an army consisting of a large number of elephants.