The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.128

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Dhruva was succeeded by his son, Gôvinda III., who, as we have just seen, was invested with the office and authority of Yuvarâja during his father's reign; a later record says that he was specially selected for the succession, from among several brothers, on account of his superior virtues; and this seems to imply that he was not the eldest son; but it is convenient, in the genealogical table, to enter him as senior at any rate to Indra-râja of Gujarât, though, as no distinct assertion either way is made in any of the records as yet available, the latter may very possibly have been really the elder. His special birudas were Prabhûtavarsha; "the abundant rainer;" Srivallabha, "the favourite of Fortune," which appears in the Prâkrit form of Srivallabha in a Kanarese record at Lakhmêshwar;⁵ and Jagattunga, "prominent in the world;" but he was also known as Janavallabha, "the favourite of people,"⁶ and as Kîrti-Nârâyaṇa, "a very Nârâyaṇa (Vishṇu) in respect of fame;"⁷ and he may perhaps be mentioned, by another biruda, as Parabala, the father of Raṇṇadêvî who was the wife of a king of Bengal named Dharmapâla.⁸ His own records couple with his name the epithets of prithivivallabha, śrîprithivivallabha, śrivallabhanarêndra, and śrivallabhanarêndradêva, and the titles of Mahârâjâdhirâja, Paramêśvara, Bhaṭâra, and Paramabhaṭṭâraka. And his Kanarese record of A. D. 804 gives his name in the Prâkrit form of Gôyinda, and tells us that his mahâdêvî, or queen-consort, was Gâmuṇḍabbe.⁹ Until recently, the earliest absolutely certain date for him was A. D. 804, furnished by that record. But the Paithan grant, which has come to notice lately, gives an earlier date, in A. D. 794. And he is further carried back to A. D. 783-84 by a passage in the Jain Harivaṃśa of Jinasêna, which, mentioning him as Srivallabha, tells us that he was reigning over the south, or the Dekkan, in Saka-Saṃvat