The Rashtrakutas and their Times c12.s1.15

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Kṛṣṇa then marched northwards and defeated the Chedis, though his mother and wife had been born in that family. The forts of Kālañjara and Chitrakūṭa, situated in the very heart of Chandella country, were occupied by the Rāṣṭrakūṭa army, (7) and the Gurjara-Pratihāra emperor lost all hope of capturing them. An inscription, (8) recently published, confirms the testimony of the Deoli plates. This inscription was found at Jura in the Maihar State of the Baghelkhand Agency. It is written upon a stone and contains a eulogy of Kṛṣṇa III in Canarese. That a Canarese eulogy of Kṛṣṇa should be discovered in Baghelkhand can be explained only on the assumption that the claim to the conquest of Chitrakūṭa and Kālañjara is well founded. The Rāṣṭrakūṭas continued to hold these forts for about ten years; they were reconquered by the Chandella king Yaśovarman some time before 953 A.D.