The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.58

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⁷ i.e., probably, the images of two goddesses, as personifications of the rivers. These were also Râshṭrakûṭa insignia; thus, Gôvinda III. is described as “taking from his enemies the Gaṅgâ and the Yamunâ, charming with their waves, and acquiring at the same time that supreme position of lordship (which was indicated) by (those rivers in) the form of a visible sign” (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 163); and the rivers are spoken of again, as doing service to the palace of Gôvinda IV. (id. pp. 248, 253). These two emblems must have been derived, by some means or another, from the early Guptas, in the temples of whose period the Gaṅgâ and the Yamunâ, as goddesses, the former with an attendant crocodile and the latter with a tortoise, constantly appear as an architectural embellishment (see General Sir Alexander Cunningham’s Archaeol. Surv. Ind. Vol. IX. pp. 43, 70).