The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.249

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From the fact that, in the Bagumrâ grant certainly, and probably also in the Barôḍa record, there is no mention of Gôvindarâja, and from the statement in the Barôḍa grant, that Karkarâja reduced to obedience some rebellious tributary Râshṭrakûṭas, it has been held that Gôvindarâja was an usurper.² This was at a time when only one date was known for him,—that of A. D. 826 or 827, furnished by the Kâvî grant. And, while it seems more likely that at that time, if anything was wrong, he was in rebellion against his sovereign Amôghavarsha I., the earlier date, in A. D. 812, furnished by the Tôrkhêḍê grant, does seem to shew that there was then some action on his part, temporarily successful, hostile to his elder brother. If Gôvindarâja succeeded regularly to the local government, and was in his turn regularly succeeded by the first Dhruvarâja, Karkarâja must have died before December, A. D. 812, and consequently before the accession of Amôghavarsha I. in A. D. 814 or 815. But, that he survived longer is distinctly proved by the statement that he placed Amôghavarsha I. on the throne. It appears plain, therefore, that, towards the end of the reign of Gôvinda III., Gôvindarâja did engage in some enterprise which was hostile to the government of his elder brother, and which afterwards developed into an attempt to prevent the accession of Amôghavarsha I. himself. And, from the reference to tributary Râshṭrakûṭas who rebelled after having voluntarily promised obedience, it further seems probable that what he did was to join in an attempt to secure succession to the throne of the main line for some descendant of Karkarâja II., the contemporary of Krishna I. Later on, having become reconciled and loyal again, he may have naturally succeeded Karkarâja in the local government; and then, in A. D. 826 or 827, he may have fallen into some fresh act of rebellion against Amôghavarsha I., which ended in the local administration being taken out of his hands and made over to his nephew Dhruvarâja.