The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s6.63

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Siṅghaṇa’s son was Jaitugi or Jaitrapâla, who “was the abode of all arts, and was thus the very moon in opposition, full of all the digits, that had come down to the earth, to protect it. He was death to hostile kings and firm in unequal fights.”³ But if he protected the earth at all he must have done so during the lifetime of his father as *Yuvarâja*, for the latest date of Siṅghaṇa is Śaka 1169, and in a copper-plate inscription of his grandson and Jaitugi’s son Kṛishṇa, S’aka 1175, *Pramâdi-Saṃvatsara*, is stated to be the seventh of his reign, so that Kṛishṇa began to reign in S’aka 1169 corresponding to 1247 A.D.⁴ And in the longer of the two historical introductions to the Vratakhaṇḍa, Jaitugi is not mentioned at all. After Siṅghaṇa, we are told that his grandsons Kṛishṇa and Mahâdeva came to the throne, of whom the elder Kṛishṇa reigned first.⁵ Kṛishṇa’s Prâkrit name was Kanhâra, Kanhara, or Kandhâra. He is represented to have been the terror of the kings of Mâlava, Gujarât, and Konkan, to have “established the king of Teluṅga,” and to have been the sovereign of the country of the Chola king.⁶ In the Vratakhaṇḍa also he is said to have destroyed the army of Visala, who we know was sovereign of Gujarât at this time and who had been at war with Siṅghaṇa, and, in general terms, to have “conquered a great many enemies in bloody battles in which numbers of horses and elephants were engaged, reduced some to captivity and compelled others to seek refuge in forests, and, having thus finished the work of vanquishing the series of earthly kings, to have marched to the heavenly world to conquer Indra.”⁷ Laksh-