The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.145

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As has just been mentioned, the Mahâkûta pillar inscription of Mangalêsa speaks of the Kalachuris by the Sanskritised name of Kalatsûri. It further records that these people were conquered by him in the course of an expedition to the north, and that their reigning king at the time was named Buddha. And it shows that the event took place between A. D. 597-98 and 602. By this conquest,—judging from the localities in Western India in which the Kalachuri era was used,—Mangalêsa must have acquired a considerable amount of territory, extending, in the Konkan, up to the river Kîm at least, which was the northern boundary of the Lâta country, and perhaps even up to the Mahî; the country between the Kîm and the Mahî, however, belonged to the Gurjara princes, of whom an account will be given further on; and there are grounds for thinking that, though he may have established rights of suzerainty over the Gurjara territory, that country was not actually made a part of his dominions as the Lâta province was. The victory over Buddha or Buddharâja is also referred to in Mangalêsa’s copper-plate grant from Nerûr, which adds the information that Buddha’s father was Samkaragana.² And these early members of the family are doubtless carried back one step further by a grant from Sânkhêdâ, in the Baroda State,—referable to the same period,—which mentions a king named Samkaragana, son of Krishnarâja, with fairly certain indications, through the names of the places that are mentioned, that his sovereignty included the territory in the actual neighbourhood of Sânkhêdâ.³ The existence, in the direction of Gujarât, of an early king named Krishnarâja, who may be allotted to this period just as well as to a somewhat earlier date, has also been established by certain coins from Dêvalânâ in the Nâsik