The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.12

c8.12

It would seem that Jayabhaṭṭa III had made an alliance with the Gujrat Cālukya ruler Maṅgalarasa, and that the allied forces had wrested away the continental districts from the Valabhī king in c. 725 A.D. Indra I seems to have, very probably, served in this campaign as one of the feudatories of the Cālukya king; it was in that capacity that he may have been present in Kaira, when he carried away the Cālukya princess by force from the marriage pandal there. Bhavanāgā may have been a daughter of Maṅgalarasa or Pulakeśin. Hindu marriage is indissoluble and, therefore, the estrangement caused by this *rākshasa* marriage could not have lasted long. The Cālukya ruler may have soon reconciled himself with the accomplished fact; the marriage may have also added to the prestige and patrimony of Indra in Berar.