The Rashtrakutas and their Times c12.s4.28

c12.s4.28

How Taila II suddenly became strong enough to challenge the mighty Rāṣṭrakūṭas, and who his allies were, is still a mystery. We have already seen how it is very likely that the Yādava ruler Bhillama II of Seuṇadeśa may perhaps have been one of his allies. (55) Pampa states (56) that his patron Arikesarin II had put to flight Bappuva, a younger brother of Karka. But Arikesarin II was dead before 959 A.D. when his son Vadyagarāja (Baḍḍega II?) was ruling, and therefore Bappuva, the younger brother of Karka whom he put to flight, may have been a brother of Rāṣṭrakūṭa Karkara who was a partisan of Govinda IV. Baḍḍega II may have possibly sided with Taila II. Since Taila’s father had married a daughter of the Chedi ruler Lakṣmaṇa, whose son was ruling that kingdom at the time of his accession, it is possible that he may have derived some assistance from his maternal uncle, especially since Kṛṣṇa II had committed the blunder of alienating the sympathies of that house by wantonly attacking its territories in his northern campaign. It has to be observed, however, that no Chedi records mention any such help given to Taila.