The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.30

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According to the Kauthêm grant of A. D. 1009, there was an early Râshṭrakûṭa king Indra, son of Krishṇa, who was conquered by Jayasiṁha I., of the family of the Western Chalukyas of Bâdâmi, about the beginning of the sixth century A. D.³ And the tendency has been to find corroboration of this statement in certain coins from Dêvalâṇâ in the Nâsik District, which may be allotted to the period in question, just as well as to a somewhat later date, and which give the name of an early king Krishṇa. But, as has already been pointed out,⁴ the statement in question appears first in the eleventh century A. D., after the overthrow of the Râshṭrakûṭas by the Western Châlukyas of Kalyâṇi; in the early records, there is nothing whatever to support it; and it is evidently to be accounted for simply by the fact that, after the overthrow of Kakka II. by Taila II., there survived Indra IV., grandson of Krishṇa III., by crowning whom the Western Gaṅga prince Mârasimha attempted to continue the Râshṭrakûṭa sovereignty.⁵ As regards the coins, there is nothing that compels us to allot them to any dynasty in particular; and they are probably Kalachuri coins of Krishṇarâja, the father of Saṁkaragaṇa.