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ingly, Mânya is clearly used in the sense of rent-free for charitable purposes.'
The grant is described as being made in the reign of Krishnaraja, who bore the title of Akalavarsha Deva. This Krishnaraja is doubtless of the family of the Yadava kings, known also by the name of Râshtra Kûṭas, who reigned at Mânya Kheța, or the modern Mal-Khed in the Nizam's territory, and whose authority was subverted by Tailapa Deva of the Chalukya dynasty about the end of the tenth century of the Christian Era.
There would at first sight appear to be some
The Karda plate:
1 Danti Durga.
2 Krishna Raja (his paternal uncle)
3 Govinda Raja.
THE RASHTRAKUTA DYNASTY.
4 Nirupama (his youngest brother).
5
Jagat Rudra.
6 Amogha Varsha.
7 Akâla Varsha.
8 Jagat Rudra.
9 Indra Nripa.
10 Jagat Rudra. 11 Amogha Varsha.
12 Krishna Deva.
13 Khodviga Deva. 14 Kakala Raja.
Prof. H. H. Wilson§ suggested that the list in the Karda grant represents a series of princes belonging to two different branches of the Yâdava family, reigning concurrently in two different places. He supposes that the last seven princes beginning with Jagat Rudra form a separate branch, and that Kâkala Râja, the last of the branch, was probably contemporary with Akâla Varsha. On this is based his inference that, as the last, Kákala, made the Karda grant in Saka 894, "the earliest vestiges of the Yâdavas yet met with in the Peninsula are to be placed about Á. D. 867-for an average of fifteen years to a reign will be rather more than sufficient for the precarious authority and interrupted succession of the Hindu Râjas."
This theory of "two collateral branches" appears to be untenable. Prof. Wilson's principal ground for the supposition of "two collateral branches" is, that in the Karda plate
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difficulty as to which Amogha Varsha and Krishnaraja Deva of the lists already published of the Yâdava kings of Mânya Kheta are represented by the Amogha Varsha and Krishnaraja Deva mentioned in the inscription. The first list published in 1836† from what is known as the Karda (or Kardla ?) copper-plate grant, contains fourteen princes. In 1842-43 the late Bal Gangadhar Shastri furnished to the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, from a copper plate grant found at Khârepâtan, another list of the same dynasty, also containing fourteen names. The two lists are as follows:
See Jour. Bom. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. I. p. 210ff. By Wathen, Jour. R. As. Soc.. Vol. III. p. 105. See Jour. Bomb. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. I. p. 211.
The Kharepatan plate:
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2
8 Govinda Raja.
4
Nirupama.
5
6
7 Akâla Varsha.
8 Indra Râja (grandson of Akâla).
9 Amogha Varsha II.
10 Govinda Raja (brother of Amogha).
11 Baddiga (his paternal uncle).
12 Krishna Râja.
13 Khotika (brother of Krishna).
14 Kâkala (brother's son of Khotika).
Danti Durga.
Krishna Raja (his paternal uncle).
Jagat Tunga.
Amogha Varsha.
to which his remarks relate, Kakala Raja the donor (entitled Amogha Varsha) is described as "meditating on" Akâla Varsha's "feet," which he construed to mean that Akâla Varsha lived in the time of Kâkala, and that the latter was subordinate to the former. Now the words "meditating on his feet" do not necessarily suggest that Akâla Varsha Deva was then alive, but that Kâkala Deva took Akâla Varsha Deva as the model for his conduct. In the present inscription Krishna Deva, who was reigning supreme, is described as "devoted to the contemplation of his father's feet," and yet everything in the context goes to show that his father was not living.
Again in the Karda inscription Amogha Varsha, the 6th of the above lists, is expressly stated to have had Mânya Kheta as his capital; and further on Kâkala Deva Raja is also described as "residing at Sri
pp. 393-4.
Journal Royal As.. Soc. vol. II., and p. 105 vol. III. S'rimat-Akala-Varsha-Deva pâdânudhyâta.
