The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.368

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vivallabha. In the Sâmângad grant of the Râshtrakûta king Dantidurga, he is spoken of as Vallabha, and his army is called the Karnâtaka army. The Vakkalêri grant tells us that, learning the use of weapons in his childhood, he so pleased his father as to be invested with the dignity of Yuvarâja, and to be intrusted with the command of an expedition against the "family-foe," the Pallava, the lord of Kânchî, in which the Pallava king came out to meet him, but proved unable to fight in the open country; whereupon, Kîrtivarman II. drove him back into his fortress; broke his power; and seized multitudes of elephants and rubies, and much gold, which he presented to his father. The grant of the Râshtrakûta king Prabhûtavarsha-Gôvinda III., dated in A. D. 804, mentions a grant which Kîrtivarman II. had made, to the god Paramêśvara (Śiva), at the Ramêśvara tîrtha on the Tungabhadrâ.¹