Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c27.16

c27.16

Sometime ago we came across a fragmentary Rāṣṭrakūṭa inscription engraved on a broken pillar lying in the locality called Bahādurpur in the suburbs of the town of Kandhār. The inscription is written in the North Indian alphabet of about the tenth century A.D. The extant parts of the record contain only the beginning of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa genealogy down to Kṛṣṇa I (756-75 A.D.) and mention a number of shrines that existed at the place when the inscription was set up about the tenth century, probably during the reign of Kṛṣṇa III. It is interesting to note that two of the deities mentioned in the inscription are Kālapriya and Kṛṣṇeśvara while the same two gods are also mentioned in the Karhad plates of Kṛṣṇa III.¹