[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s13.7 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.7 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.7 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.7) Râshṭrakûṭas probably then at once annexed all the territory to the north, as far as the Sâbarmatî: at any rate, the grants of Suvarṇavarsha-Karkarâja of A. D. 811 or 812, and of Prabhûtavarsha-Gôvindarâja of A. D. 812,¹ suffice to cover the intervening country up to the Mahî; the grant of Dhârâvarsha-Nirupama-Dhruvarâja, son of Suvarṇavarsha-Karkarâja,² shews that in A. D. 834 or 835 Kaira was a Râshṭrakûṭa town; and the grant of A. D. 909 or 910³ shews that the country round Kâpaḍwaṇaj, further to the north even than Kaira, was then a part of the dominions of Krishna II. What became of Kâṭhiâwâḍ and northern Gujarât after the end of the Valabhî period, is not yet known. The statements of some of the Arab travellers⁴ would suggest that the Râshṭrakûṭas pushed on to the frontier of Sindh. But it does not seem likely that they long retained any possessions in that direction. For, in A. D. 914 the territory on the west of the Sâbarmatî was in the possession of a king named Mahîpâla, who had a local representative, Dharaṇîvarâha, of the Châpa family, at Waḍhwâṇ in the north-east corner of Kâṭhiâwâḍ.⁵ And in A. D. 941-42⁶ Mûlarâja established the Chaulukya dynasty of Aṇhilwâḍ, to the north-west of Aḥmedâbâd, which retained the sovereignty of that part of the country for the next four centuries: the records of Krishna III. point to wars between him and Mûlarâja; and very possibly in his time the Râshṭrakûṭa frontier in that direction had to be drawn back to the Mahî, or even to the Narmadâ. The extent to which the territory acquired by the Râshṭrakûṭas from the Western Chalukyas was enlarged by them to the east and south, and the various means by which this was done, will be best gathered from the details given in the following pages; in those directions, the climax was reached in the time of Krishna III., who penetrated even to the Chingleput District, near Madras, on the east coast, and took Conjeeveram and Tanjore. - [Previous: c8.s13.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.5) - [Next: c8.s13.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.8) - [Up: c8.s13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s13.7) · Pramāṇa