Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c8.21

c8.21

According to Karka's Baroda plate (S. 734, A.D. 812) Karka had a son named Dantivarman who is mentioned as the named Dutaka of the plate. The fact of being a Dutaka implies that Dantivarman was then of age. That Dantivarman was a son of Karka is supported by Akalavarsha's Bagumra plate (S. 810, A.D. 888) where, though the plate is badly composed and the genealogy is faulty certain useful details are given regarding Dantivarman, who is clearly mentioned as the son of Karka. Karka had another son named Dhruva, who, according to three copperplates, succeeded to the throne. But as Dantivarman's son's grant is dated S. 810 or seventy-six years later than the Baroda plate some error seems to have crept into the genealogy of the plate. Neither Dantivarman nor Dhruva seems to have succeeded their father as according to Govinda's Kavi grant (A.D. 827) their uncle Govinda succeeded his brother Karka. The explanation may be that Dantivarman died during his father's lifetime, and that some years later, after a great yearning for a son, probably in Karka's old age, a second son Dhruva was born, during whose minority, after Karka's death, Govinda appears to have temporarily occupied the throne.