The Rashtrakutas and their Times c11.s2.16

c11.s2.16

The Deoli and the Karhad plates of Kṛṣṇa simply state that the vicious life and lascivious ways of Govinda IV ruined his constitution, alienated the sympathies of his subjects and feudatories and led to his destruction. The manner of his losing his kingdom is described by Pampa in his Vikramārjunavijaya where he praises his patron Arikesarin II under the title of Arjuna. In the 9th Āśvāsa of the above work, in a prose passage after v. 52, we read:—