The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.314

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District;¹ the details are Pausha śukla 8, Sunday, of the Vijaya saṁvatsara, 'Saka-Saṁvat 855 (expired), corresponding probably to the 29th December, A. D. 933. In this reign, again, there was war between the Râshtrakûṭas and the Eastern Chalukyas. One of the Eastern Chalukya records tells us that Amma I. (A. D. 918 to 925) used his sword against some feudatory relatives who had joined the party of his natural adversaries, and won over to himself the subjects and the army of his father and his grandfather;² the meaning being that some of the members of his family had entered into a conspiracy with the Râshtrakûṭas to prevent his accession to the throne of Veṅgî. And another tells us that Châlukya-Bhîma II. (A. D. 934 to 945) destroyed a great army that was sent against him by Gôvinda IV.³ The Dêôlî grant of A. D. 940 says that Gôvinda IV. took to vicious courses, by which he alienated the affections of his people, ruined his own constitution, and weakened the government; and that thus he met with destruction.⁴