Nityamvarsha (Saka 836, A.D. 914). ------------------------ | | | | ----------------- 17 Krishna 19 Kottiga. Nirupama. | | (S. 867, 878 | 14 Amoghavarsha 15 Govindarája A.D. 945, 956). Kakkala Sáhasánka or Karkarája Suvarnavarsha. (Saka 894, A.D. 972). [Copperplates.] The earliest Gujarát Ráshtrakúta grant, Kakka's of Saka 669 (A.D. 747), comes from Ántroli-Chároli in Surat. It is written on two plates in the Valabhi style of composition and form of letters, and, as in Valabhi grants, the date is at the end. Unlike Valabhi grants the era is the Saka era. The grant gives the following genealogy somewhat different from that of other known Ráshtrakúta grants: Kakka. | Dhruva. | Govinda. | Kakka II. (Saka 669, A.D. 747). [Kakka II. A.D. 747.] The plate notices that Kakka the grantor was the son of Govinda by his wife the daughter of the illustrious Nágavarmman. Kakka is further described by the feudatory title 'Samadhigatapanchmahásabdah' Holder of the five great names. At the same time he is also called Paramabhattáraka-Mahárája Great Lord Great King, attributes which seem to imply a claim to independent power. The grant is dated the bright seventh of Ásvayuja, Saka 669 (A.D. 747). The date is almost contemporary with the year of Dantidurga in the Sámangad plate (A.D. 753). As Dantidurga was a very powerful monarch we may identify the first Kakka of this plate with Kakka I. the grandfather of Dantidurga and thus trace from Dhruva Kakka's son a branch of feudatory Ráshtrakútas ruling in Málwa or Gujarát, whose leaders were Dhruva, his son Govinda, and Govinda's son Kakka II. Further Dantidurga's grant shows that he conquered Central Gujarát between the Mahí and the Narbadá [419] while his Elura Dasávatára inscription (A.D. 750) shows that he held Láta and Málava. [420] Dantidurga's conquest of Central Gujarát seems to have been signalised by grants of land made by his mother in every village of the Mátri division which is apparently the Mátar táluka of the Kaira district. [421] It is possible that Dantidurga gave conquered Gujarát to his paternal cousin's son and contemporary Kakka, the grantor of the Ántroli plate (A.D. 747), as the representative of a family ruling somewhere under the overlordship of the main Dakhan Ráshtrakútas. Karka's Baroda grant [422] (A.D. 812) supports this theory. Dantidurga died childless and was succeeded by his uncle Krishna. Of this Krishna the Baroda grant says that he assumed the government for the good of the