The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.303

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The records give to these Gurjara princes only feudatory titles: they style Dadda I. and Dadda II. *Sâmanta*,⁵ and, though a somewhat higher title is connected with the name of Jayabhaṭa III., still he was only a *Mahâsâmantâdhipati*.⁶ On the other hand, they mention no paramount sovereigns. And it would seem that, after the overthrow of the Kalachuri king Buddha, of whom Dadda I. and Jayabhaṭa I. must have been vassals, the Gurjara territory became a buffer state between the kingdoms of Bâdâmi and Valabhî. This would explain why the position of Dadda II. was such that he could give protection to the king of Valabhî, — probably Dharasêna IV., — when the latter