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Dikşita of Vaccha (Vatsa) gotra, resident of Jambūsara, on the occasion of Vișuva Sankrānti in the Saka year 679 pausa tithi 7, ( 757 A.D.). The Dūtaka of the charter was Adityavarmarāja, and was issued by Bhodalla, the son of
Balādhiksta Tatta.-( Antroli-Chharoli Plates, JBBRAS, XVI, 105 ). 757 The Antroli-Chharoli grant ( 24th Sept. §. 679) supplies information that
Kakkarāja II, of the First Gujarat Branch of the Rāşțrakūța dynasty had as his immediate predesessors his father Govindarāja, married to a daughter of Nāgavarman, his grand-father being Dhruvarāja, and great-grand-father Kakkarāja I.-(EI, iii, 54).
During the Rășțrakūta period the police officers were known as Coroddharanikas or Dandapāśikas. The former are actually mentioned in the AntroliChharoli copperplates of Karkkarāja of Gujarat. (JBBRAS, XVI, p. 106), and the latter in several Valabhi records, (e.g., Valabhi Plates of Dhruvasena, dated 526 A.D.).
Crimes, that could not be locally detected, must have been investigated by these Coroddharaṇika and Daņdapāśika officers, who possibly worked under the directions of the Rāșțrapatis and Vişayapatis, who being also at the head of local troops, could have afforded military assistance to the police department
in cases of desperate robbers or dacoits. Altekar, The Rāştrakūtas, p. 261). 759 The village Bahuvațaka was given in gift by the Maitraka P.M.P. ( HERC
महाराजाधिराज-परमेश्वर) Siladitya VI to Brahmana Sambhulla of Pārāsara gotra resident of Dāhala, on Kārttika Su. 5 of the (Valabhi) year 441 ( 759 A.D.). The village was situated on the bank of Vappoikā river in Sūryapura Vişaya. The royal edict was issued from the victorious camp at Godrahaka (Godhra) and was executed by Gañjaśāti (?) Jajju. The name of the person who composed
the grant is not deciphered satisfactorily.-( Lunāvāļa Plates : IA., VI., 16). C. 760 Rāştrakūta King Krşņa I, Vallabha, Subhatunga and Akālavarşa, uncle and
successor of Dantidurga is stated in various grants to have reduced the Cālukyas, conquered Rāhappa and caused to be excavated a temple to Siva, that of Kailāsanātha at Elāpura (Elūrā ), which is one of the architectural wonders of the world, since the whole structure is hewn out of solid rock.- (IA, xii, 228;
Bom. Gaz., 390 ). C. 760 The Elūrā rock-temples are Buddhistic, Brahmanical and also Jaina. These
contain frescoes in continuation of the Ajantan style. The peculiar characteristics of some of these frescoes reveal pointed nose, circular earrings, and the eye going further beyond the facial line. This is traceable to Ajanță and Bagh also. These characteristics are found continued in the Western Indian Miniature Paintings, transferred from the wall to the palm-leaf in the first instance, and to paper in later times. Elurā frescoes are, as it were, the parent of the Western Indian miniatures.
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