Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c22.7

c22.7

⁴ From Sanaphulla the first chief to Raṭṭa the last three are ten generations Somehow each succeeding chief in this line happens to be the son of the preceding Though in a line of princes some of whom bear to others the relation of brother or uncle, the average duration of each reign is from 19 to 21 years, the average duration of a generation is always much longer, and varies from 26 to 28 years One can verify this by taking any line of princes or chiefs in the world Raṭṭa was on the throne in Śaka 930, and supposing him to have begun to reign about that time, nine generations or about 27 x 9 years must have passed away from the date of the foundation of the family to Śaka 930 Subtracting 27 x 9 = 243 from 930, we have Śaka 687 as the approximate date of Śanaphulla If we take the average to be 26, we shall have 696 as the date In either case we are brought to the reign of Kṛishṇa I The dates of Kṛishṇa II range from Śaka 797 to 833 and of Kṛishṇa III from Śaka 862 to 881, and therefore neither of these will do Even if we take the other average of a reign in the present case and subtract 19 x 9 = 171 from 930, we get Śaka 759, which will not take us to the reign of Kṛishṇa II whose earliest date is Śaka 797 The Khârepâṭaṇ family therefore was the oldest of the three, and was founded in the reign of Kṛishṇa I