The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.148

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District;¹ and, though the tendency has been to refer these coins to an early Râshtrakûta king, who was supposed to have been conquered, somewhere about A. D. 500, by the Western Chalukya Jayasimha I., still there is nothing that compels us to connect them with the Râshtrakûta or any particular dynasty, and nothing to lead us to believe that any victory over the Râshtrakûtas, or, indeed, any historical achievement at all, was accomplished by Jayasimha I: the supposed existence of an early Râshtrakûta king Krishnarâja, contemporaneous with Jayasimha I., depends upon nothing but a statement which first appears in the eleventh century A. D., and is to be accounted for by events which occurred about A. D. 975;² and, in all probability, the Dêvalânâ coins are coins of Krishnarâja, the father of Samkaragana.