The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.109

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We have no records that distinctly refer themselves to the reign of Krishna I. But it is to his time, probably, that we must allot a copper-plate grant from the Surat District,² which gives the earliest indication of branches of the Râshtrakûta family in Gujarât. This record mentions—(1) a Râshtrakûta prince named Kakkarâja I.; (2) his son, Dhruvarâjadêva; (3) his son, Gôvindarâja, whose wife was a daughter of Nâgavarman; and (4) his son, the Mahârâjâdhirâja, Paramêśvara, and Paramabhattâraka Kakkarâja II.,—described also as a parama-mahêśvara, or most devout worshipper of the god Mahêśvara (Siva),—who granted to a Brâhman a village named Sthâvarapallikâ in the Kâsakûla vishaya. The grant was made at the autumnal equinox, on the seventh tithi in the bright fortnight of the month Âśvayuja, Saka-Samvat 679 (expired), and the corresponding English date is the 24th September, A. D. 757.³ It has already been noted that, the Kâsakûla or Kâsakûla vishaya was evidently the country on the northern bank of the Tapti.⁴ And Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji pointed out that Sthâvarapallikâ is the modern Chhârôli itself, where the plates were obtained. Both the names and the device of a Garuda on the seal, tend to indicate that the persons who are mentioned in this record were of the same branch with the Râshtrakûtas of Mâlkhêd. But the place in the genealogy to which they may be referred, is not apparent.⁵ And the record is chiefly of interest in shewing that, contemporaneously with Dantidurga and Krishna I., there was another Râshtrakûta paramount sovereign in the more northern part of the country. It seems possible that Kakkarâja II. is the Râhapa, Râlappa, or Râhapya, by the defeat of whom Krishna I. extended his