The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.136

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A record put together at any time during the period A. D. 1050 to 1096 shews² that the Rattas came to the front through a person named Prithvirama, — a disciple in the Kareya sect of the Jains, founded by a teacher named Mailapatirtha,³ — being patronised and raised to the position of a feudatory chieftain by a king Krishnaraja-deva, who can only be the Rashtrakuta king Krishna III.⁴ A record of A.D. 1218 allots them to the actual lineage of a king Krishna-Kandhara,⁵ who is evidently the same person; and so also does another record, purporting, but rather doubtfully, to be dated in A. D. 1209, which mentions the king as Krishna-Kandhara, and further gives him the title of Kandhara-puravar-adhisvara or "supreme lord of Kandharapura, the best of towns."⁶ And a few passages speak of them as Rashtrakutas.⁷ But the records almost always give the family name as Ratta.⁸ And the probability is that these chieftains only belonged to some local division of the Reddi tribe or caste, and that the attribution of them to the lineage of the Rashtrakuta kings themselves is based on nothing but the circumstance, mentioned above, through which they rose to power.⁹ The records of the second branch