The Rashtrakutas and their Times c11.s1.16

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Unfortunately we have no detailed information about this campaign. From the Cambay plates we learn that he first attacked Ujjayinī, (44) then crossed the Jamuna and finally captured Kanauj itself. Mahīpāla, the Gurjara-Pratīhāra emperor, became a fugitive and was pursued by Chālukya Nārasimha, one of the generals of Indra. The poet Pampa, a protege of Nārasimha, informs us that his patron "plucked from Gurjara king's arms the Goddess of victory, whom, though desirous of keeping, he had held too loosely. Mahīpāla fled as if struck by thunderbolt, staying neither to eat nor to rest, nor to pick himself up, while Nārasimha pursuing bathed his horses at the junction of the Ganges and established his fame." (45) Mahīpāla seems to have been pursued upto Allahabad. (46) The testimony of the southern records as to the defeat and flight of Mahīpāla is confirmed by a fragmentary Chandella inscription from Khajuraho, (47) from which we learn