The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.233

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A.D. 802, November 13. Maṇṇe plates, E. Mysore (See above s.v., A. D. 797). These plates have a sound date, naming the eclipse of the moon on the day stated. Reign of Rāshṭrakūṭa Gōvinda III. His father Dhruva is called ‘Dhora.’ Gōvinda humbled the Pallavas, and reduced the Eastern Chāḷukyas of Vengi, so says the record, to such a condition that their king came and built the walls of a fortress for Gōvinda. (E. C. ix. Nl. 61.)