The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.372

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The successor of Kṛishṇa III. was another younger brother whose name appears in the Prâkrit forms of Khoṭṭiga, Khoṭika, and Koṭṭiga.¹ He had the special biruda of Nityavarsha; and, among other minor ones, also that of Ratta-Kandarpa, "the Ratta god of love." And the record of his time, which describes him as reigning over the whole earth bounded by the four oceans, gives him the usual titles of Mahârâjâdhirâja, Paramêśvara, and Paramabhaṭṭâraka, and the customary epithet of śrîprithivîvallabha. The only date that we have for him, as yet, is in October, A. D. 971. Sîyaka-Harsha, one of the Paramâra kings of Mâlwa, claims to have taken the wealth of Khoṭṭiga in battle; and it appears that Mâlkheḍ itself was plundered, either by that king, or by his successor Muñja.²