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Vākāțaka king Pșthvīşeņa I, who conquered a Kuntakleśvara (Lord of the Kuntala). Přthvīşeņa extended his sovereignty over Nachne Kitalai and Ganj in Bundelkhand as well as over the borders of Kuntala. Ą Vākāțaka king Harisena claimed victory over Kuntala. The Rewah stone Insc. of Karna refers to Kuntala, which was country of the later Caulūkyas. According to some Kuntala is situated between the Bhīmā and Vedavatī, comprising the Kanarese districts of Bombay and Madras states and the Mysore state and also perhaps a part of Maharashtra with Vidarbha having its capital at Pratis thāna on the Godāvarī. The Tālagundā Pillar Insc. informs us that a Kuntala king of Vaijayanti in Kuntala gave his daughter in marriage to Gupta and other kings. Some Mediaeval kings of Kuntala traced their lineage to Candragupta. Dr. V. V. Mirashi does not subscribe to the view of Dr. Law that Kākut Sthavarman the Kādamba king gave his daughter in marriage to the son of Candragupta II Vikramāditya because according to him Kākutsthavarman flourished about A.D. 450 i.e. about fifty years after Candragupta II Vikramāditya.' Dr. V.V. Mirashi puts forward the hypothesis that Rāstra Kūtas of Mānapura and the Vākāțakas of Nandivardhana owed allegiance to the Gupta monarch Candragupta II Vikramaditya. Devarāja of the Rästrakūta family was a contemporary of Candragupta II. It was probably to the court of this king that Kālidāsa was sent as an ambassador as inferred by him from the stray references to Kuntales varadautya available in the Kāvyamīmāṁsā of Rājasekhara, Aucityavicāracarcă of Ksemendra, Sạngāra Prakāśa and Saravsatīkant hāharana of Bhoja. He also infers that Candragupta II Vikramāditya had married his daughter Prabhāvatīguptā to Rudrasena II who died young and in order to help the dowager queen run her administration, with Divākarasena yet being her minor son, he sent some experienced generals and statesmen to his court in Vidarbha. Devarāja was feudatory of the king of the Vākātakas who was called Kuntalesa and an ally of the Guptas. The Vākāțaka prince Naredrasena, the great grand son of Candragupta II was married to the Kuntala Princess Ajjhita bhattārikā as recorded in the Bālāghāța plates.? Kerala
Kerala is the Kamarese form of the Tamil Cerala. Pānini mentions it in his Astādhyāyī.? The Bhāgavata Purāna refers to it. This country is
1. Studies in Indology Vol. I p. 7. 2. Ibid. pp. 5-11. 3. 4. 1. 175. Neither traceable original text narepered to by Dr. V.S. Agrawal and Dr.
A.D. Agnihotri and Dr. B.N. Puri Aştādhyāyi IV. 1.174., 1977. 4. X. 79. 19. P. 637, 642; X 82.13
