Ancient History of the Deccan c4.s3.18

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Professor K. B. Pāṭhak's plates (Ind. Ant., 1912, page 215) is a grant of land issued by Queen Prabhāvatī, widow of Rudrasēna II, during the minority of her son the Yuvarāja Divakārasena. It seems therefore that Rudrasēna II. died shortly after his marriage and that about the year 400 A. D. the queen Prabhāvatī, the glorious daughter of the Gupta emperor was the regent of the Vākāṭaka kingdom. We have said that Pṛithivī-ṣeṇa I. vanquished the king of Kuntala; and Kuntala is the empire of the Kadambas : the town of Halsi, in Belgaum district, which was at one time called Palāśikā (Halasige) was originally in the Kuntala kingdom (Ep. Ind. Vol XIII., p. 299; Kadamba inscription, verses 58-62). The Vākāṭakas were the neigbours of the Kadambas and the Vākāṭaka kingdom extended up to the modern town of Kurnool on the banks of the Kṛishṇā. We know that the famous temple of Śrīśailam or Śrī-Parvata is in the Kurnool district; and a "story, as related " in the Sthala Māhātmya of the place, says that the princess " Chandravati, a daughter of the Gupta king Chandragupta " conceived a passion for the God on the Śrīśaila hill and " began offering every day a garland of jasmine (mallikā) " flowers to him" (Report on Epigraphy for 1914-1915-G. O.