The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.258

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date that we have for him, is A. D. 911-12. A Sanskrit commentary on Guṇabhadra's *Âtmânuśâsana*, describing that person as the preceptor of Kṛishṇa II. while the latter was *Yuvarâja*, indicates that, before his actual accession to the throne, he had been formally associated with his father in the administration; and the date of A. D. 875-76 for him, as *Yuvarâja*, is perhaps supplied by one of the later records of the Raṭṭa chieftains of Saundatti.¹ It was during his reign, and in the *Piṅgala saṃvatsara*, coupled with *Śaka-Saṃvat* 820 (current), with a date falling in A. D. 897,² that Guṇabhadra finished his *Uttara-Purâṇa*; and the *praśasti* of that work mentions, in the passage that gives that date, a certain Lôkâditya, of the Chellapaṭâka or Chellakêtana family, who, as a feudatory of Kṛishṇa II., was then governing the Banavâsi province at the town of Vaṅkâpura, which is the modern Baṅkâpur in the Dhârwâr District.³ Though the Râshtrakûṭa records themselves contain no allusion to the fact, the wars with the Eastern Chalukyas continued in this reign also. It is claimed for Guṇaka-Vijayâditya III. (A. D. 844 to 888) that "challenged by the lord of the Raṭṭas, he conquered the unequalled Gaṅgas, cut off the head of Maṅgi in battle, and frightened 'the fire-brand' Kṛishṇa (II.), and