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that Amoghavarşa was born in the monsoon of 808 A.D. - Sanjān Plates, EI., XVIII, p. 246).
The Paramāra king P. M. P. Pșthyivallabha: Prabhūtavarşa Śrivallabha Narendradeva, successor of P. M. P. Dhārāvarşadeva, in an edict issued from Mayūrakhandi gave in grant the village of Rattajjuna ( Ratajan ) in Rāsiyana (Rasin) Bhukti, to Parameśvarabhațţa, resident of Tigavi (Tugaon). The grant was issued on the occasion of a solar eclipse in $. 730 (Sarvajit) Srāvaņa ba. 15, Sürya-grahaņa-parva ( 808 A.D.).—( Rädhanpur Plates : EI, VI, 239).
Halāyudha, author of the Kavi-rahasya or Kavi-guhva; according to a Gujarat copy of this work, its hero was one of the Kțşņas of the Rāştrakūta line, possibly the first of that name ( 760-80 A. D.).
One Halāyudha is reputed to be the author of the Abhidhāna-ratnamālā : these two may be identical. Weber placed the latter work to about the end of the 11th century.
The Rāştrakūta king Indrarāja was succeeded by his son Karkarāja Suvarṇavarşa, who served to Govindarāja III, of the main line, for the protection of Mālava, as a bolt of door against the king of Gurjara-deśa, i.e. Nāgabhata II. This power was shared by his brother Govindarāja Prabhūtavarşa.
The Rāştrakūta viceroy Karkarāja Suvarņavarşa of Lāța issued from Siddhasami the grant of Vaţapadraka grāma, situated within the 'Ankoţtaka Eighty-four'. The site of Vațapadraka is represented by modern Baroda (the headquarters of Baroda District) and that of Ankoţtaka by the village of Akoțā lying to the west, opposite the railway line, as specified in the grant. This was possibly on the trade-route from Central India with the ancient port of Bharukaccha at the other end. The excavations near Akoţā bear testimony to the antiquity of the site.-(B. Subbarao, Baroda Through the Ages, M. S. University of Baroda, 1952).
Karkarāja (Kakka ) Suvarṇavarşa was ruling in 812-817 A.D. as Rāştrakūta Viceroy of Gujarat, in succession to his father Indrarāja. Karkarāja's brother Govindarāja was co-viceroy in 813-817.
Govinda III, the Rāştrakūța, attacked the Gurjara king, and some time before 812 A.D., conquered the province of Lāța (Central and Southern Gujarat), which he made over to his brother Indra; and founded there the Second Branch of the Rāştrakūța dynasty of Gujarat.
The recipient of the grant was one Brāhmaṇa Bhānu of Vätsyāyana gotra, an emigrant from Valabhi. The grant was issued on the occasion of Mahāvaisākhi ( the Full Moon Day of Vaišākha ) in S. 734 (812 A.D.) and composed by Nemāditya, son of Mahāsāndhivigrahādhikrta Durgabhata. The Dūtaka of the royal edict was Prince Dantivarman.-( Baroda Plates, IA., XII 156 ff.).
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