The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.217.2

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to command an expedition into Gujarât; that he subjugated the Paḷḷavas of Noḷambavâḍi; and that he fought and conquered in battles on the banks of the Tapti, at Mânyakhêṭa (the Râshṭrakûṭa capital), and at Gônûr, Uṭchchaṅgî, and Pâriseyakôṭe, and in the Banavâsi country; and, finally, that, after the overthrow of Kakka II. and his expulsion from Mânyakhêṭa by the Western Châḷukyas under Taila II., he made an attempt to continue the Râshṭrakûṭa sovereignty by crowning Indra IV., the grandson of Kṛishṇa III.:⁷ the attempt, which was not successful, must have been made soon after June, A. D. 973, which is the latest recorded date for Kakka II.; and it is to be attributed to the close connection that existed between the two families.¹ Mârasimha must have been immediately succeeded by a certain Pañchaladêva, whom a fragment at Mulgund, in the Dhârwâr District,² describes as reigning, as paramount sovereign, in A. D. 974-75, over the whole country bounded by the eastern, western, and southern oceans. Pañchaladêva seems, then, to have taken advantage of the general confusion, that must have attended the downfall of the Râshtrakûṭas and the death of Mârasimha, to set himself up as an independent king; but he was shortly afterwards killed in battle by the Western Châlukya Taila II. Earlier facts connected with him are to be found in the Adaraguñchi inscription,³ which tells us that, in A. D.