The Rashtrakutas and their Times c10.3

c10.3

*Continued from last page* or later, attributes the conquest of that province to him. The word 'Īs'vara' in the expression 'तद्दत्तलाटेश्वरमंडलस्य' which occurs in the Baroda plates (I. A., XII, p. 160) may well be due to metrical exigencies. It may be pointed out that the Baroda plates of Dhruva II use the expression 'लाटीयं मंडलं यस्तनय इव निजस्वामिदत्त ररक्ष.' The fact that the donee in the Pimpri plates of Dhruva is a resident of Jambusara would also suggest that southern Gujrat was included in the Rāṣṭrakūṭa kingdom before the accession of Govinda III.