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connexion exists between the two struotures and it becomes of importance for the bistory of the Ellora temple.
V. 14 informs us that Krishộarāja had a son Prabhutunga Govindarāja. He is of course the same person as the Yuvarāja Govindaraja Prabhutavarsha Vikramávalóka of the Alan plates. The designation Prabhutunga of this prince is not known from other sources.
We learn from 1. 22 that the grant was issued at the request (vijñapanā) of Govindarāja, while 1. 26 mentions Våsishthaśrukamara and Jaivanti Pāņaiya as having made the vijfiapanā. It is tempting to infer that Vāsishthasrikumāra was another designation of Govinda. That would imply that this prince had adopted the götra designation of the Vásishthas. We have not, however, any information that any Rāstrakūta prince claimed to belong to the Vāsishtha gotra. We know that it was Krishnarāja who completed the overthrow of the Chalukyas, and it would be conceivable that he made an attempt at imitating those princes, who claimed to belong to the Mänavya götra, and that he tried to make his son Govinda assume the designation Vásishtha-Srikumara. It is, however, safer to assume that Võsishthaśrtkamāra is a different person from Govindarāja, to whom he and Jaivanti Papaiya made their request which the prince then made his own.
At all events there is no indication in the grant that Govinda had become installed as Ywarāja. In the Alia plates of Saka 692, on the other hand, he is designated as such. His installation must accordingly have taken place some time between March 768 A.D., the date of the Talegaon plates, and Jane 770 A.D., when the Alås grant was issued.
The Talögãon plates pra dated Saka Samvat 890 (expired), in the Plavanga-varsha, on the new moon day of the month Vaisakha, on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun. The corresponding Christian date is Wednesday, the 23rd March 768 A.D. Krishnarāja states that he was then engaged on an expedition against the Gangas and that his camp had been pitcheul at Mannanagara (1. 26). This place is no doubt identical with Mannai or Manyapura, the capital of the Western Gangas, which has been identified by Mr. Rice with Manne in the Nelamangala taluka of the Bangalore District, 13° 15' N. and 77° 18' E. We learn from this statement that Krishnaraja, like his son Dhruva, went to fight the Gangas. The Ganga king who ruled in A.D. 768 was according to Dr. Fleet the Maharaja Prithivikongapi Sripurasba.
The grant itself was issued to the Brahmanas living in the Karahăța ten-thousand, and two shares were especially reserved for & certain Bhatta-Vasudeva. Karahāta is the present Karbād in the Såtāra District. It is here said to be a ten-thonsand district. It is elsewhere said to consist of four thousand villages and towns. The object of the grant was the village Kumarigrāma, together with Bhamaropara, Araluva, Sindigrama and Tadavalē, all in the Pūnaka-vishaya lying to the west of Khambhagrāma, Vörimagrāma, and Dadimagräma, to the north of the Khadiravēņa bill, to the east of Alandiyagrăma and Thiuregrāms and to the south of the river Müila. As has been pointed out by Mr. Bhandarkar, who has identified these places on the Survey of India Atlas sheet No. 39, the chief importance of the inscriptions for tbe geography of Western India rests with the fact that it establishes the existence of a Poona District under that name as early as the eighth century, for there can be no doubt that Panaka is the same name as the modern Poona, i.e. Puna. The modern form shows that Panaka is a Prakrit form derived from an older Punnaka or Punnaka, because the dental of Pünā cannot represent an originally single 1. The etymology of the name is accord. ingly ur certain. It can just as well be punyaka, as usually supposed by Pandits, as pürnaka.
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Ep. Cars., Vol. III, Introduction, p. 10. • Ep. Ind., Vol. VI, p. 64. • Pali, Sanskr. and old cas. Im»er. No. 19; Mysore Inscriptions, p. 60,
