"IN THE MIDST OF THIS JUNGLE of mundane human existence does the carpenter Yama select upright and round trees in the shape of men and cut them down. The son’s son of the illustrious Krishnarajendra [Krishna III], possessor of the ornaments of both truth and purity, the daughter’s son of Ganga-Gangeya [the Talakadu Ganga feudatory, Marasimha II], a pleasure-house of the goddess of Victory, the son-in-law of Rajachudamani — he was Ratta-Kandarpadeva. Ratta-Kandarpadeva is the Vira among the Viras—the hero among heroes. For his daily practice, he sometimes uses a ball the size of a black pepper seed, or he uses a stick that is shorter than the breadth of four fingers, or he uses a heavy sword; sometimes his horse maybe small or the size of a mountain; sometimes the circuit maybe a small field or larger than the circle of the earth; Indraraja will not be satisfied unless he makes these movements for eight or ten rounds.” Indraraja in this manner, attacking the chakrayuha like a Chakra-bearer [literally, Vishnu] by going round it, leaping on it, penetrating it here and there, he was unequalled in receiving no injury."
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Indra IV
Indra IV (r. 973–982 CE) was the last Rashtrakuta Emperor and a nephew of the feudatory king of Western Ganga Dynasty of Talakad. After Tailapa II captured Manyakheta, the Ganga Maharaja Marasimha II crowned Indra III as emperor in Bankapura and worked hard to keep the dwindling Rashtrakuta Empire intact after the betrayal and invasion of Parmaras of Malwa but in vain. Marasimha II committed Sallekhana at Bankapura in 975 and Indra IV followed him in 982 at Shravanabelagola.
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