The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s3.45

v2.c30.s3.45

I have already referred to the success of Kṛṣṇa II (*c.* 888-912 A.D.) and his son Indra III (*c.* 915-17 A.D.) against the local branch of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas in Lāṭa. Akālavarṣa-Kṛṣṇarāja (A.D. 888) appears to have been the last Rāṣṭrakūṭa chief of Southern Gujarat in the line of Indrarāja. When Bhagwanlal Indraji and Jackson wrote on the ‘Early History of Gujarat’ in 1896, they were unaware of any other feudatories of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Malkhed in Gujarat. But according to the traditional policy of the Deccani rulers it was naturally to be expected that after the success of Kṛṣṇa II and Indra III, they should appoint a new viceroy to govern their possessions in Gujarat. The recent discovery of the Harsola plates of Kṛṣṇa III (A.D. 949) has thrown welcome light on the Gujarat policy of the later Rāṣṭrakūṭas by revealing the existence of a family of feudatories, who appear to have supplanted the line of Indra.¹ The *Mahāmaṇḍalika-cūḍāmaṇi-M.* Sīyaka, his father Vairisiṁha, and his grandfather Bappairāja, of this inscription have been rightly identified with the well-known Paramāra rulers Vākpati I, Vairisiṁha II, and Harṣa-Sīyaka II.²