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being identified with Krishna Deva, No. 12 of the above list, it can hardly admit of doubt that

culations, it has been further found that the new moon of Bhādrapada in Saka 867 fell upon Tues

Amogha Varsha, No. 11 of the Karda plate, must be taken to be the father of Krishna Rāja Deva as stated by our inscription; which being dated during Krishna Rāja's own reign was less likely to be in error regarding the relation be tween the two princes than either the Karda plate,

day, as mentioned in the inscription. To recapitulate then what has been said

which was dated about twenty-seven years, or a

generation after Krishna Rāja, or the Kharepatan plate, which was given full sixty years after that prince, and in a district far removed from Mánya kheta.

It is to be noticed that the inscription makes mention of Krish I, a Raja being intent upon making an expedition of conquest upon Kaly

above regarding the Yādava princes of Mánya A heta, we find—

1.

That the series of fourteen princes given

in the Karda copper-plate grant is made up of kings of one and the same family who reigned one after another at Mánya-Kheta.

2. That the date of Go v in d a Rāja, the third of the lists being Saka 730, and that the last prince of the list being Saka 894, it is pro bable that the reign of Dan ti Durga, the first prince of the lists, might be taken to have commenced about 40 years before that of Go

à na, the capital of the Chālukyas, thus confirm ing what we already know—that the latter were antagonistic to the Rāshtra Kūta kings of Manyakheta. The expression “engages in re ducing the prosperous and great Kalyāna” might mean that Krishna Deva was the first of his dynasty who undertook an expedition upon

vinda Rāja, or A.D. 767, and not A.D. 867 as supposed by Prof. Wilson, and that consequently the Mánya-Kheta line of kings covers a period

the city of the Chālukyas during their temporary

latter prince was Akāla Varsha, and that he

bereavement of it, or that the hold of the

was on the throne in Saka 867 ; and 4. That Krish n a Rāja De va, No. 12

of about two centuries.

3.

That Amogh a Varsha, No. 11 of the

Karda plate, was the father of Krishna Deva,

No. 12 in the same, and that the title of the

Rāshtra Kūta kings "over that city, obtained long before his time, had been shaken by some other rival or by the Chálukya family, who must be supposed to have been attempting at this

he should be put down as the son of A m o g h a

time to recover it, since they actually did recover

V a r s h a.

in the Karda list, given above, should have Akāla Varsha added to him as his title, and that

Translation.

it about fifty years later under Tailapa Deva. The solar eclipse recorded in the inscription was calculated for me by Prof. Keru Lakshman Chhatre, and found to correspond with the Saka

PRosPERITY |

Victorious is

the

excellent

Dekhan inscriptions, the Bärhaspatya or cycle year, Plavanga, mentioned in the inscription, does not correspond with Šaka 867, in which the cycle year Viśvāvasu occurred, and between which and

child” born of Vinatá, and belonging to Vishnu, and manifested in [visible] form, carrying him,f whose body is the three-fold universe, and pre eminent among those that are possessed of bodies From: the time of Saka eight hundred and sixty-seven years having passed, and as many years in figures, § when the year Plavanga is current, the people being happy, the country

Plavanga there intervene two years.

Whatever

abounding in wealth of corn of various kinds, the

may be the proper explanation of this oft-recur

doubt whatever that Saka 867 is the correct date

beloved son of the glorious King A m o g h a var sh a Param e S v ar a, A kāla V a r s h a | Deva [by title], the excellent, devoted to the contemplation of his father's (lit. elder's) feet,

of the inscription.

By Professor Chhatre's cal

engaged in reducing the prosperous and great

of Vishnu, and the son of Vinatà. + Vishnu.
 * This refers to the great Eagle Garuda, the conveyance

sight of the engraver. In documents of the present day it is very usual in the vernaculars to give a certain number in figures, and say also so many in words. The re

f Sakakalāt. From this it is clear that Saka was regard

version of the order in the inscription is owing to the latter

year 867, in which year, in Bhādrapada, there did occur a solar eclipse.

But as usual in the

ring discrepancy, the agreement between the

year Šaka 867 and the solar eclipse leaves no

ed in the tenth century A.D. as a proper name.

being entirely in verse.

§ Sakakói lód gatábdānām sasāptádhika-shastishu Sate shrashtasu tératsu samānām ankatopi cha. The words ing the number 867 was intended to be put after them. But no

the title may be Akālavarsha or Kālavarsha, but as previous inscriptions contain Akāla Varsha as the title of princes of the Yadava family of Mânya Kheta, I take Akāla Varsha
 * The original being Prithirf-pallabhekſilavarsha-Dece,

numerals are cut on the stone, doubtless through an over

as the title here.

td rats, samº; ném ankatopi cha show that the figures indicat