The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.337.1

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The successor of Vaddiga was his eldest son Krishna III., whose name appears also in the Prâkṛit form of Kannara:⁸ in one passage he is mentioned as "the dear or favourite son" of his father;⁹ and in another he is spoken of as a *paramadhéśvara* or most devout worshipper of the god Mahêśvara (*Śiva*).¹⁰ He had the *biruda* of Akâlavarsha,¹ — the usual titles of Mahârâjâdhirâja, Paramêśvara, and Paramabhaṭṭâraka, — and the epithets of prithivîvallabha, śrîprithivîvallabha, and samastabhuvanâśraya.² Later records of the Raṭṭa chieftains of Saundatti, of the thirteenth century A. D., speak of him as Kṛishṇa-Kandhara and Kṛishṇa-Kandhâra, with the title of Kandhârapuravar-adhîśvara or "supreme lord of Kandhârapura, 'the best of towns,'" — a place, however, which is otherwise unknown;³ and one of them would give him the name or biruda of Tuliga.⁴ Mânyakhêṭa (Mâlkhêḍ) continued to be his capital. The earliest date that we have for him is in April, A. D. 940. The latest date, furnished by his published records, is in November A. D. 951. But an inscription at Âlûr in the Hângal tâluka, Dhârwâr District, mentions him as still reigning in May, A. D. 956. The Vellorê inscription⁵ shews that he reigned for at least twenty-six years. And the date of A. D. 968-69 may perhaps be furnished by the Lakshmêshwar inscription of the Western Gaṅga prince Satyavâkya-Koṅgunivarma-Mârasimha,⁶ who was then, or had been, a feudatory of his; but the record does not make it clear whether Kṛishṇa III.