The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.41

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The earliest certain mention of Râshtrakûtas, however,³ is to be found in a copper-plate grant which gives the following short genealogy:—(1) Mâna, or Mâvânka, who was "an ornament of the Râshtrakûtas;" (2) his son, Dêvarâja; (3) his son, Bhavishya, with two others whose names are not given; and (4) Bhavishya's son, Abhimanyu, who, when resident at a town named Mânapura, in the presence of a certain Jayasimha who, is described as "the chastiser of the Kotta Harivatsa," granted to a Brâhman a village named Undikavâtikâ, on behalf of the god Dakshina-Siva of Pethapangaraka. The record is not dated; but it may be allotted, on palæographic grounds, to approximately the seventh century A. D. And Mânapura may possibly be identified with the modern Mânpur in Mâlwa, about twelve miles south-west of Mhow.⁴ It is to be noted that the crest of these Râshtrakûtas, as indicated by the device on the seal of the charter, was a lion; and they must, therefore, have belonged to a branch of the Râshtrakûta stock separate from that of the Mâlkhêd family.