Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c8.50

c8.50

At this time the 810 A.D. grant from the son of dated S. 832 (A.D. 910) and published in Ep. Ind. I, 52ff. states that a noble Adhavala or Adhruva of Karka's family, a feudatory of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, was in charge of a sub-division of 700 villages in the Kheṭaka district in Lāṭa, and was a feudatory near Pāramī. The grant gives the name of Karka's family as Bhaṭṭāraka and states that the family gained the favour of Lakṣmī by the prowess of the arm of Akālavarṣa, although all the members of the family drew their authority from the Rāṣṭrakūṭas. This grant mentions four of its members, all of whom have non-Gujarāt names or look like names of the rulers of the rulers Pracaṇḍa's ancestors and to have been high Rāṣṭrakūṭa officers. The first is named Kakkala; the second his son Dhavala; the third Dhruva; the fourth, Rājāditya, son of Dhavala, the father of the donor, Karka. The plate describes Rājāditya as having brought to his house by living fortune as if he had regained lost authority. The plate describes Dhavala as killing the enemy in a moment and a son of his, Karka, the Maṇḍala or kingdom which he could not enjoy portions of glory, Adhavala. Thus, a city referred to as Karka's permanent residence, Kheṭaka with the Maṇḍala is mentioned in the late Rāṣṭrakūṭa Kārīā plate (No. 123). Dhavala was probably a Rāṣṭrakūṭa's general who fought and defeated the leading Maṇḍala, because which may have led to Dhavala's being placed in authority over Gujarāt. The Karādī grant (A.D. 910) grant describes Dhavala's son Pracaṇḍa with the feudatory title, and describes the great words. Dr. Burgess believed Pracaṇḍa to be a lager brother of Akālavarṣa, and that Candra was his another name or the same person, but the published text gives the date as 810 as stated. The grant is a Brahman and the owners of the village of Vyāghrā, perhaps Vāghra in Broach. The plate describes Kakkala as gaining victory fighting in the battle field. A rather unintelligible verse follows implying that the Salla, the Salla-Vidyādhara apparently the North Konkan Kadamba who ruled from the Konkan area, his Vidyādhara rivals helped Adhavala's son in his enemies, probably by driving them from South Gujarāt. The Āhāra king at this time would be Karkarāja (A.D. 910).