Indian Antiquary Vol 62

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

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Gunaka-Vijayaditya III."19 But the question is if Kókkala I married his daughter with Krona II,20 prior or posterior to the help be rendered to the Rastrakata prince in the South.
The former alternative, however, would give us a reason why Kókkala should help Krsna, and facts seem to corroborate it. King Indra III, grandson of Krona II, died in 917-18 A.D., leaving behind two sons who had attained such age as to succeed him on the throne. Supposing Indra III died when about thirty, at the earliest, we get at 887-88 A.D. as the hypothetical date of his birth, at the latest. His father Jagattunga II, who, though he did not reign, may yet be said to have lived for at least some twenty-five years, for he, too, had got two sons in Indra III and Amoghavarga III. Thus Jagattunga may be supposed to have been born sometime in the first half of the seventh decade of the ninth century A.D., if not earlier, and his father, Krena II, had been wedded to the daughter of Kókkala I anterior to that, while the onslaught of Gunaka-Vijayaditya III on MAnyakhêta could not have possibly taken place so early. Kókkala I thus seems to have succoured Krona II as his son-in-law, and this most probably not during the lifetime of Amôghavarga I.
From the Bångarh grant of Mahipala I, the 9th of the PAla monarchs, as also some other PÅla inscriptions of Bengal, we know that Rajya pala married the daughter of a certain Tunga of the Rastrakūta family.21 Prof. Kielhorn identified this Tungs with Jagattunga II.22 An inscription found at Bôdh-Gaya "records the dedication of a repository for aromatics and incense, or a well-scented temple (i.e., Gandhaku/t) for the service of Buddha" and "the dedicator was a king named Tunga, grandson of Nanda, & RAhtor prince of the race of Rastrakūta") who once took or held the fort of Manipur................"28 The late Mr. R. D. Banerjee opined that the father-in-law of Rajyapala was this Tunga of Magadha, of the Bodh Gaya inscription. But it does not necessarily follow from the Bodh Gaya inscription that Tunga, grandson of one who was in the possession of Manipura, had been the lord of Magadha. He, as a Buddhist, might well have visited Bodh Gayà in course of a pilgrimage. Granting, however, he had succeeded in carving out a principality of his own in Magadha, it would come to mean that Tunga's usurpation of the Magadhan soil followed either from the hands of the (Gurjara) Pratih&ras or from those of the Palas themselves. But, in any case, he who had tried to make intrusion and establish supremacy in Magadha, could not be friendly with the Palas, and thus no matrimonial alliance was possible between these two houses at that time. Again, the description of Tunga, as it is in the Bangash inscription ("the high (tunga) high-crested (utturiga-mauli) moon of the Rastrakata family (Raptrakuf-anvay= indu) 35 makes it indubious that the father-in-law of Rajyapala, far from being a petty prince, like Tunga of the Bodh-Gay& inscription, did belong to the Imperial Rastrakata family. "Tunga' is a general opithot borne by the Imperial Rastrakūtas, 46 and Krona II was called Subhatunga, with whom Mr. N. N. Vasu identifies the father-in-law of Rajyapala." This appears to be more tonable than Prof. Kielhorn's identification with Jagattunga II, in view of the fact that the latter did not come to the throne at all, while Kroņa II had actually been a contemporary of Rajyapala's father, Narayanapala, whose reign covered the latter half of the ninth century.
10 E.I., VII, 29. 30 1.A., XII, 260, 263. 21 Cf. E.I., XIV, 329, v. 7-8; JASB., LXIX, pt. 1, p. 69 33 JASB., LXI, 80, n. 9. 33 R. L. Mitra, Bodh Gaya, Ch. V, inscription No. 8, p. 194. 34 Bdriglar Itima, vol. I, 2nd ed., p. 216; Mem. A.S.B., vol. V, p. 62. 35 JASB., LXI, 80. 28 Cr. tho Karhad Plates of Kropa III, v. E.I., IV, 287. 37 Variger Jdtiya Itihdsa, Rdjanya Kanda, p. 108.