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Saka era, those from Karhāda in the year 880 and those from Deoli in the year 882 of the same era. The genealogy set forth by the copper-plate inscription from Sanjana refers to king Prachchakarāja as the first king in the lineage of the Raṣṭrakuṭa dynasty and to king Govindaraja I as the second king. The copper-plate inscriptions from Navasari, Karhāda and Deoli do not refer to these two individuals at all. The Karhāda and Deoli copper-plates are found to have referred to king Raṭṭa and king Raṣṭrakūta as the first and the second in the lineage. The Navasari copper-plates refer to Dantidurga as the first king and are found to have omitted the names of king Prachchakarāja, king Govindaraja I, king Raṭṭa and king Rāṣṭrakūṭa. The Karhāda aud the Deoli copper-plates omit the names of king Prachchakarāja and his successor king Rāṣṭrakūṭa, king Karkarāja and king Indrarāja who are described as the successors of king Govindaraja I in the Sanjana copper-plates and king Ratta and king Raṣṭrakūta referred to in the Karhāda and the Deoli inscriptions, seem to be identical respectively. King Dantidurga is referred to in all the four copper-plate inscriptions, but king Subhatunga is not found to have been referred to in the Navasari, the Karhāda and the Deoli inscriptions as he is found in the Sanjānā copper-plate inscription. In the Sanjānā copper-plate inscription he is described as to have defeated a Calukya king and deprived him of his kingdom. According to the same copper-plate inscription, the king who had succeeded king Subhatunga was Akālavarṣa. According to the remaining three inscriptions king Dantidurga had been succeeded by king Kṛṣṇarāja, his uncle. The Sanjana copper-plate inscription, being older than the remaining three copper-plate inscriptions and being of king Amoghavarsa, the son of king Govinda III alias king Jagattunga deserves to be relied upon more than the remaining three inscriptions. King Akalavarṣa, being the father of king Dhārāvarṣa alias king Dhruvaraja, is none else but
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