The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.337.2

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was at that time still alive or not. An important event of this reign was the war with the Chôḷa king Râjâditya. This is specially referred to in the Âtakûr inscription, which tells us that in or just before A. D. 949-50, Kṛishṇa III. fought and killed Râjâditya at a place named Takkôḷa; that the actual slayer of the Chôḷa king was the Western Gaṅga prince Satyavâkya-Koṅgunivarma-Permaṇadi-Bûtuga, who killed him treacherously, while they were out together, taking the air;⁷ and that, in recognition of this, Kṛishṇa III. gave to Bûtuga the Banavâsi twelve-thousand province, the Purigere three-hundred, the Belvola three-hundred, the Kisukâd seventy, and the Bâgenâd seventy. The Bûtuga who is mentioned here had acquired the Gaṅgavâḍi province by killing Râchamalla, son of Ereyappa; and the Dêôlî grant indicates that, in doing this, he received material assistance from Kṛishṇa III. The spurious Sûḍi grant speaks of Bûtuga as besieging Tañjore;⁸ and this appears to be borne out by the Tirukkalukkunram inscriptions, which describe Kṛishṇa III. as the taker of Kâñchî and Tañjore. The Dêôlî record states that Krishna III. slew two kings named Dantiga and Vappuka; that he subdued many hostile Gangas; and that he overcame a Pallava king whose name is real as Anthiga: and it also implies that he protected the Kalachuris of Central India from an attack by the Gurjaras, i.e.