[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.s3.362 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.362 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s3.362 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s3.362](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.362) Krishnarâja, otherwise called Subhatuṅga and also Akâlavarsha, carried on the work of Dantidurga and reduced the Châlukyas to complete subjection. In two of the grants⁶ he is spoken of "as having with the aid of gods in the form of his counsellors or followers churned the ocean of the Châlukya race which had been resorted to by mountains in the shape of kings afraid of their wings or power being destroyed⁷—an ocean that was inaccessible to others,—and drawn out from it the Lakshmî⁸ of paramount sovereignty. He is said to have defeated Râhappa who was proud of his own power and prowess, and afterwards assumed the ensigns of supreme sovereignty. Who⁹ this person was we have not the means of determining. In the Wardhâ plates he is represented to have constructed many temples of Śiva, which resembled the Kailâsa mountain.¹ In the Baroda grant it is stated that Krishnarâja "caused to be constructed a temple of a wonderful form on the mountain at Elâpura. When the gods moving in their aerial cars saw it they were struck with wonder and constantly thought much over the matter saying to themselves, 'This temple of Siva is self-existent; for such beauty is not to be found in a work of art.' Even the architect who constructed it was struck with wonder, saying when his heart misgave him as regards making another similar attempt, 'Wonderful! I do not know how it was that I could construct it.' King Krishna with his own hands again decorated Sambhu (Siva) placed in that temple, by means of gold, rubies, and other precious jewels, though he had already been decorated by the wonderful artificial ornaments of the stream of the Gangâ, the moon, and the deadly poison." The ending pura in the names of towns, when it undergoes a change at all, is invariably changed to ur, as in Sihur for Simhapura, Indur for Indrapura, S'irur for S'ripura, &c. The Elâpura of the inscription, therefore, is Elur; and the temple described in the grant in such terms must be one of those excavated on the hills at the place, perhaps the temple of Kailâsa itself.² Thus it appears that it was Krishnarâja that caused the Kailâsa to be constructed, and the date assigned to it by Drs. Fergusson and Burgess simply on architectural grounds is verified. Krishnarâja must have reigned in the last quarter of the seventh century of the S'aka era; i.e., between 753 and 775 A.D. - [Previous: c8.s3.361](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.361) - [Next: c8.s3.363](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.363) - [Up: c8.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.362](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s3.362) · Pramāṇa