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and further seems to speak of him as Vallabharija. The Hebba! inscription of A.D. 975, which is a Western Ganga record, would set up for him the biruda of Obalakenall&ta;' but it seems likely that it only carries it back to him, mistakenly, from his great-grandson Krishna III.
Krishna II. had & son, through whom the succession was transmitted, bot who did not himself reign : his proper name has not yet come to light; and he is only known, by a biruda, as Jagattunga II. That he did not reign, and that the succession passed direct from Krishṇa 11. to Indra III., is shewn by the formal preambles of the prose passages of the Nausâri grants of A.D. 915, which describe Nityavarshanarendradêva-(Indra III.) as meditating on the feet of Akálavarshadêva-(Kfishņa II.).
Krishņa II., then, was succeeded by his grandson Indra III., son of Jagattunga IL His Nausâri grants of A.D. 915 mention him, in the verses, first by the birudas of Rattakandarpadeva and Kirtinarayana, and then by the proper name of Indraraje;" and, in the formal preambles of the prose passages, one of them mentions him by the birudas of Srivallabha and Nityavarsha, the latter with the ending narendradêva, - Nityavarshanarendradêva, "bis majesty the king Nityavarsba," while the other omits the Srivallabha and mentions bim as only Nityavarsba, again with the same honorific ending The Hatti-Mattûr inscription of his time, dated in A.D. 916-17, mentions him by only the biruda of Nityavarsha ;' and so also does an inscription at Lakshmeshwar, dated in the same year. To the preceding birudas, established by the records of his own time, a verse in the Sangli grant of A.D. 933, issued after his time, adds that of Bajamartanda,' which seems probable and admissible.
Indra III. had two sons. The proper name of the elder one has not yet come to light; and he is only known as Amoghavarsha II., by the biruda by which he is mentioned in the Dell grant of A.D. 940 and the Karhad grant of A.D. 959:10 the Sangli grant of A.D. 933 merely refers to him as the elder brother of Govinda IV., without mentioning him by any appellation at all." A later and extranecus record, the Silabâra Bhadana grant of A.D. 997, asserts that he reigned for one year. But no such statement is made in the Deoli and Karhad records. And, that there was no basis of truth for the assertion, is distinctly proved by
1 Loc. cit. (see note 13 on page 175 above), verse 20. If so, the verse seems to refer to seven bundred and fifty villages, which constituted bis private personal estate. But it is possible that the reference bere is to the feudatory prince Ak Aluvarsba-Krishnarja, whose existence is set up by the Bagumri grant purporting to have been issued in A.D. 888 (see note 12 on page 175 sbove). * Above, Vol. IV. p. 852, text line 2.
See notes 5, 6, below. • Jour. B. Br. R. A. Soc. Vol. XVIII. p. 259, B., plate li. , text lines 5, 7, 9, and p. 263, A., plate ii. 1, text lines 2, 5-6, 8. The translation gives Virap arayana, by mistake for Kirtin Arayana.
Loo. cit. p. 264, A., plate ii. 8, text line 12; and see page 168 above, note 6. • Loc. cit. p. 259, B., plate il. 6, text line 13.
Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 224, text line 1. # Not yet publisbed, I quote from an ink-impression. The details of the date include Adityavars, the tenth tithi of the bright fortnight of, perhape, [BbAdrspada; but only the last two syllables of the name of the month remain, and they are very doubtful. In this record, the saneatsara, Dbåta (for Dbåtu, or Dhátri), is coupled with Saks-Sachvat 839 (current, by the southern lani-solar system), -AD.916-17, the year being expressed plainly in words. In the Hattt-Mattar record, it is coupled with 8.-8. 838, which we must apparently take as expired, by the same system, again - A.D. 916-17.
Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 250, text line 19; the word was then translated, by "a very son of a king." 30 Above, Vol. V. p. 193-94, verse 16; and Vol. IV. p. 288, verse 18. 11 Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 250, text lines 28 to 25.
11 Above, Vol. III. p. 271, verse 6. The assertion is possibly based on some such sut bority as the spurious W.dgaon grant (noticed, Dyn. Kan. Distro. p. 416, note 6; to be explained more fully in an article on purious Indian Records in the Indian Antiquary), which puts forward as the reigning king, and as the alleged giver of the donation claimed by it, an Amoghavarsha by whom it really means Indra Ill. Or, perhaps, the BhAdd grant has mistakenly applied to bio an assertion which might be correct in respect of his uncle Amoghavarsba.Vnddigu. whose reign was certainly not along one.
