Ancient History of the Deccan c5.s5.22

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b) The Gōdāvarī copper plates ( J. B. B. R. A. S. Vol XVI, page 116 ) had been studied when we gave the history of Indrabhaṭṭāraka of the Viṣṇukuṇḍin dynasty : the king Pṛthivimula who was the donor of the Gōdāvari plates was the son of Śri-Prabhākara and reigned in the city of Kândâḷi. He was the vassal of another more powerful king named Indra who was the son of Mitavarman, reigned at Maṇalkudi and had for his war-elephent Supratika (the elephent of the N. E. quarter). The document says that this king was the victor in the struggle against the king Indrabhaṭṭāraka. But we have said that this is not probable and that, on the contrary, the Viṣṇukuṇḍin king seems to have aennxed the districts of Gôdâvari and Vizagapatam and driven away the kings of Kalinga to the north. In fact, the capital of the kings of Kalinga which was Piṣṭâpuram at the times of Mahêndra and Vâsiṣṭhiputra Śaktivarman seems to have been transferred further north to Sârapalli and Simhapura after the Viṣṇukuṇḍins captured Piṣṭâpuram. This event probably took place in the first quarter of the VI Century.