The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.287

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Krishna II. had a son, whose proper name has not yet been disclosed by the records, and who is known only by the biruda of Jagattuṅga. The Dêôlî grant of A. D. 940 tells us that he died without obtaining the sovereignty.¹ And all else that we know about him is derived from the Sâṅglî grant of A. D. 933 and the Karḍâ grant of A. D. 972. The former tells us that he married Lakshmî, a daughter of Raṇavigraha, who was a son of Kokkaḷa, i.e. of the Kalachuri king of Chêdî who was the father-in-law of Krishna II.; and that by her he had a son, Indra III.² The Karḍâ grant gives the same names, Lakshmî and Indra, for his wife and son. But it states that Lakshmî was a daughter of Saṁkaragaṇa, lord of Chêdî. And it adds that, not being contented with the hostile territories that had been acquired by his father, Jagattuṅga went forth to make the whole earth subject to his father's sway; and that then, in Chêdî, he married Gôvindâmbâ, a daughter of his maternal uncle Saṁkaragaṇa, and had by her another son, Amôghavarsha-(Vaddiga).³ These accounts are to be reconciled by taking Raṇavigraha and Saṁkaragaṇa to be one and the same person,—the latter appellation being his real name, and the former a biruda,—and to be a brother of the daughter of Kokkaḷa whom Krishna II. took to wife: in this way Lakshmî and Gôvindâmbâ would be sisters;⁴ and Raṇavigraha-Saṁkaragaṇa would really be the maternal uncle, as well as the father-in-law, of Jagattuṅga II.⁵