The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.175

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⁷ *Ind. Ant.* Vol. XII. p. 11.—The authenticity of this record is doubtful for the following reasons:—(1) It does not mention Dantidurga by his proper name; and it gives him the *biruda* of Vairamêgha, which is not borne out by any other record; (2) it speaks of Krishna I. as Akâlavarsha-Kannêśvara; and here Kannêśvara is a mistake for Kannara; (3) it mentions Gôvinda II., not by his proper name, but by the *biruda* of Prabhûtavarsha, and this is not borne out by any other record; and (4) the date does not work out correctly, and, moreover, is expressed in numerical words for a time when, apparently, that method of expressing dates had not come into use in epigraphic records.—The earliest epigraphic instance of the use of numerical words in expressing date, in India, is given by the Eastern Chalukya grant that records the date of the coronation of Amma II. in A. D. 945 (*Ind. Ant.* Vol. VII. p. 18; see also *Gupta Inscriptions*, p. 73, note 1, on the general question).