The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.396

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One of the Śravaṇa-Belgoḷa inscriptions, indeed, discloses the fact that, after the expulsion of Kakka II. from Mâlkhêḍ, an attempt was made by the Western Gaṅga prince Permanadi-Mârasimha to continue the sovereignty by crowning Indra IV., the grandson of Kṛishṇa III.³ This is plainly to be attributed to the close connection between the two families: Permanadi-Bûtuga, the father of Mârasimha, was a brother-in-law of Kṛishṇa III.;⁴ and Indra IV. was the son of a daughter of Bûtuga.⁵ As Mârasimha himself appears to have died before the month Âshâḍha (June-July), falling in A. D. 974, of the Bhâva *saṃvatsara*, Śaka-Saṃvat 896 (expired),⁶ the attempt was made between June, A. D. 973, and the same month in the following year. Indra IV. lived on for some nine years or so. But there is nothing in the Western Châlukya records or elsewhere, to shew that the attempt that was made in connection with him was even temporarily successful. And he ultimately died on the 20th March, A. D. 982.¹