________________
208
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JULY 5, 1872.
Manya-Kheta-Pura." Now if Kakala | Akala Varsha. But if we identify Akala Varsha Deva Raja, belonging to a different branch of the with the 7th of the lists, the difference between same Yadava family, reigneù concurrently with him and Govinda Raja, whose date is given as Amogha Varsha (the 6th of the lists), as Saka 730, would be 134 years, a period that is Prof. Wilson supposes, they could not have had too long for five princes. The Amogha Varsha the same city for their capital. Besides, in the of this inscription is identical with No. 11 and Karda inscription there is nothing that would Krishna Raja with No. 12 of the Karda plate. justify the theory that the list of fourteen princes The date of Krishņa Raja Deva being then forms two branches of the Yâdava family reigning Saka 867, and that of Kakala Raja, Saka 894, concurrently with each other. The mention of there is only a difference of 27 years, which is the Chedi family of the Yâdavas shows that not too long for three princes. the Mânya Kheta princes intermarried with the The objections to this identification are-1st, former.
that the Karda plate makes Krishna Raja (the Then, since Prof. Wilson made these remarks, twelfth ) not the son, but a brother, of his prethe date of Govinda Raja, the third of the decessor Amogha Varsha, whereas this inabove lists, has been discovered to be Saka 730 scription describes him as his son; and 2ndly, that (A. D. 808) from a copper-plate grant found in the Khârepatan plate does not mention Krishna the Nâsik district.* Now if Kakala Raja Raja as Amogha Varsha's successor, but gives - Deva was contemporary with Akala Var- two princes, Govinda Raja and Baddiga, as insha, the seventh of the above lists, then the tervening between them. age of that A kala Varsha must be the The first objection can only be met by supsame as that of Kakala Raja, viz., Saka posing that the Karda plate is not quite accurate 894, and the date of Govinda Raja being in giving Kệishna Deva as the brother of Saka 730, leaves an interval of 164 years and Amogha Varsha. This is not very extraordithree princes; and even allowing ten years, mary, seeing that the genealogies of kings have the portions of the reigns of Govinda Raja and often times been at the mercy of the memory of Akala Varsha, included, we have still an average Sanskrit writers. of 48 years for the reign of each of the inter- As for the discrepancy between this inscripvening princes, which is far too much,
tion and the Khârepatan plate, it is possible Lastly :-If two branches of the Yâdavas had that Baddiga, the predecessor, according to the reigned concurrently, the Khârepatan inscrip- latter, of Krishna Raja, might have borne tion would surely have contained some allusion the title of Amogha Varsha, For Baddiga is to this, whereas the list on it is essentially the only the name of the king, not his title. And as . same as that contained in the Kardá plate. No. 11 in the Karda plate is put down as
It seems clear therefore that the fourteen Amogha Varsha, i.e., by the title, not by the princes belonged to the same Yadava family name of the King, it is possible that No. 11 of that reigned at Mâny a-Kheta, and that the Karda plate was the same as No. 11 of the Ka kala Raja, the fourteenth of the lists, Khârepâtan one.t and the grantor of the Karda copper-plate grant, The testimony of the Karda plate on the score did not live at the same time with A kala of some Amogha Varsha being the predecessor Varsha the seventh,
of Krishna Deva is more trustworthy than the Now there can be no doubt that the Krishna discredit thrown on that fact by the list of the Deva of the present inscription corresponds Khârepatan plate, first because the latter list was with No.12 of the Kardâ plate, Krishna Raja's recorded in Saka 930 (A.D. 1008), or about 40 title is A kala Varsha, and at first sight, years after the reign of Kákala Raja, and sixtyAinogha Varsha the 6th and Akala Varsha the six years after the date of the present inscription; 7th of the lists would seem to claim identifica- and secondly, because it oscurs in a document tion with the two princes of this inscription. relating to a dynasty subordinate to the The claim would also seem to be strengthened Chalukyay, who were antagonistic to, and had by the fact that both the Karda and the Khâre- subverted the authority of the Mânyakheta pâțan plates agree with it in describing Amogha princes. Varsha (the 6th of the lists) as the father of The Krishna Raja Deva of this inscription
At Van-Daidori, and published in No. X of the Asiatic Society's Journal
The arrangement on page 207 indicates another way of co-ordinating the lists.-ED.
