The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s17.30

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⁴ From a further expression in the same passage, tending perhaps to connect her with three kingdoms or sovereignties, Dr. Bhandarkar (Early History of Dekkan, 1884, p. 77, and note 2) considered that it was on her mother's side that she was of Râshṭrakûṭa descent, and that her father is to be identified with the prince Jhañjha of the Northern Koṅkaṇ branch of the Śilâhâra family (see chapter VIII. below). But, as the Śilâhâra Jhañjha's period was two full generations before A. D. 997, this identification is impossible; and I take Lakshmî's father to be a member of some northern offshoot of the Râshṭrakûṭa stock.—The name Jhañjha is not unique. It occurs also in one of the branches of the Maurya family, in the direction of Khândêsh (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II, p. 222).