The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.46

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on page 426 above, is the Paramâra king Vâkpati-Muñja of Mâlwa, the successor of Sîyaka-Harsha who has been mentioned in connection with the Râshtrakûṭa king Khottiga. This event, however, is not to be made synchronous, — even if the verse in question intends it, — with the overthrow of the Râshtrakûṭas; for we have, for Muñja, as late a date as A. D. 979.¹ It is claimed for Muñja that he conquered Taila II. no less than sixteen times,² before he met his fate at Taila's hands. And he eventually lost his life under the following circumstances. He made his final expedition into Taila's country, against the advice of his minister Rudrâditya. Crossing the Gôdâvarî, which is said to have formed the northern boundary of Taila's kingdom, he was defeated and taken captive. After a protracted imprisonment, he made a futile attempt to escape. And then, being imprisoned again, he was at first treated with great indignity, and finally was executed.³ The killing of Pañchala, also, was not really synchronous with the commencement of Taila's reign; for that person, a Western Gaṅga prince, is described, in a fragmentary record at Mulgund in the Dhârwâr District, as reigning in A. D. 974 or 975 over the whole country bounded by the eastern, the western, and the southern oceans.⁴