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⁴ Lattalûra-pura-paramêśvara (Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 220). So, also, the Ratta chieftains of Saundatti styled themselves Lattalûr- and Lattanûr-puravar-êśvara (e.g., id. Vol. XIX. pp. 165, 248).—Another form in which the name appears, is Latalaura,—doubtless by mistake for Lattalaura. It occurs in an inscription of the time of the Western Chalukya king Vikramâditya VI., dated in A. D. 1087-88, at Sîtâbaldi in the Central Provinces, which says that his feudatory, the Mahâsâmanta Dhâdibhadaka or Dhâdibhandaka, of the "great" Râshtrakûta family, had emigrated from Latalaura.—One of the records of the Ratta chieftains of Saundatti (an unpublished inscription at Hannikeri in the Belgaum District, dated in A. D. 1208-1209) styles the Râshtrakûta king Krishna III. Kandhâra-puravar-adhîśvara or "supreme lord of Kandhârapura, the best of towns." This, however, is an isolated instance; and I know of no place that can be identified with an ancient Kandhârapura or Krishnapura. The name may possibly have been invented from an imaginary Krishnapura, derived from some passage similar to that in which the Eastern Chalukya king Gunuka-Vijayâditya III. is said to have effected the burning of the city of Krishna II. (Krishna-pura-dahana; see Ind. Ant. Vol. XX. p. 102, note 26).