The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.111

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¹ There might be a temptation to arrive at some very definite fixtures, by identifying the Daṇḍadaṇḍa, lord of Kâñchî, who was overthrown by Ravivarman, with the Pallava king Ugradaṇḍa-Lôkâditya-Paramêśvaravarman who was a contemporary of the Western Chalukya king Vikramâditya I. in the period A. D. 655 to 680 (see further on in this chapter). But this would place the Kadambas too late.—Mr. Rice has allotted the specific dates of A. D. 420 or 438 to Krishṇavarman (father of Dêvavarman), A. D. 538 to Kâkusthavarman, A. D. 570 to Mrigêśavarman, and A. D. 600 to Bhânuvarman (e.g., Mysore Inscriptions, Introd. pp. xxxvii., xxxix., and Coorg Inscriptions, Introd. p. 2, note 5). But these dates depend simply on the statement, in the Western Gaṅga grants, that the sister of a Kadamba king named Krishṇavarman was given in marriage to the Gaṅga king Mâdhava II., whose reign is accepted by Mr. Rice, on the authority of the same records, as having ended in A. D. 425. And, as the Gaṅga records in question are spurious and worthless for any historical purposes (see further on in this chapter), no dates can be fixed by means of them.—The date of A. D. 438 for Krishṇavarman was, in fact, arrived at by myself,—from the spurious Gaṅga records (see Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 23); but this was before I had advanced in epigraphy sufficiently far to recognise their true nature.