Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c6.7

c6.7

P 75, *line* 20, *at the end add* The Karhâḍ charter was issued in 880 Śaka, *i. e.*, 18 years after the Wardhâ grant. It contains two stanzas more about Kṛishṇa III. than the latter, and these must in consequence be regarded as alluding to events which occurred between Śaka 862 and 880 As stated therein, to consolidate his power Kṛishṇa deprived some of his feudatories of their principalities, and granted them to others who were meritorious, some were separated from each other and others joined together. "With the idea of conquering the south, he uprooted the Chola race, placed the territory ruled over by it under his own dependents, made the kings of the Chera, Pâṇḍya, and other countries along with Simhala or Ceylon his tributaries, and erected a triumphal column at Re(â)mesvara" In an inscription at Âtakûr in the Maisur territory, dated 872 Śaka, Kṛishnarâja is represented to have fought with the Chola prince Râjâditya and killed him In this last act he was assisted by Bûtuga, his Ganga feudatory mentioned above, and Gûtuga was rewarded for his services by being granted additional territory ² In a village in the Chingleput district of the Madras Presidency, which must have formed a part of the ancient kingdom of the Pallavas, there are two inscriptions dated in the seventeenth and nineteenth years of the reign of Kannaradeva, *i e* Krishṇadeva, in which he is spoken of as the conqueror of Kachchi or Kâñchîpura the capital of the Pallavas and Tañjai identified with Tanjor (Tañjâvûr or Tañjâpura) which was the capital of the Chola princes Another inscription at Vellore is dated in the twenty-sixth year of his reign, and there are two more containing his name in South Arcot³ which was probably included in the Chola kingdom These facts bear out the statement in the Karhâḍ grant of his having uprooted the Chola race and held the country by placing it under his dependents, and another in this and the Wardhâ grant that the Pallavas were destroyed by him This latter event, however, took place before Śaka 862 the date of the Wardhâ grant while the conquest of the Chola prince came on later By the Karhâḍ charter which was issued on Wednesday the 13th of the dark half of Phâlguna when 880 years had elapsed since the time of the Śaka king, the cyclic year being *Kâlayukta*, Kṛishna granted,—while encamped at Melpâṭî with his victorious army for the purpose of apportioning the southern provinces among his dependents, taking charge of all the possessions of Arelesvara, and constructing temples to be dedicated to certain gods,—the village of Kankun in the district of Karahâṭaka to the great Śaiva ascetic Gaganaśiva, who was the pupil of Iśânaśiva and was conversant with the Śivasiddhântas or sacred books of the Śaiva sect, for the benefit of the whole group of ascetics It would appear from this that Śaivism flourished about the district of Karhâḍ at this period