Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c27.7

c27.7

The founder of the Raṭṭa dynasty of Saundatti in the Belgaum District is stated to have been raised to the position of a feudatory chieftain by a king named Kṛṣṇa who has been identified with the Rāṣṭrakūṭa emperor Kṛṣṇa III (939-67 A.D.).⁵ An inscription of 1218 A. D. represents the said Raṭṭas as the descendants of the same Kṛṣṇa, called Kṛṣṇa-Kandhāra, while another record of 1209 A.D. (?) from Haṇṇikeri near Sampgaon in the Belgaum District of Mysore mentions the same king as Kṛṣṇa-Kandhara and represents him as Kandhāra-pura-var-ādhīśvara, ‘the supreme lord of Kandhārpura, the best of the cities’.⁶