The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v2.c14.22

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The next three rulers of the family, Dāḍhiyappa, Bhillama I, and Rājiga, are shadowy figures who ruled from about c. A.D. 900 to 950. Then came Vandugi or Baḍḍiga, during whose reign the family came into political prominence owing to his marriage with Vohiyavvā, a princess of the Imperial Rāṣṭrakūṭa family and a daughter of Dhorappa, a younger brother of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa emperor Kṛṣṇa III. This prince was a notable warrior who took an active part in the numerous campaigns of his feudal lord and uncle-in-law Kṛṣṇa III. It thus is quite possible that Kṛṣṇa may have sanctioned an increase in the jāgir of his enthusiastic son-in-law, but the precise extent of the Yādava principality under Baḍḍiga is not known.