The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.57

c8.57

Dantidurga's attacks on the rulers of Tank, Sindha and Malva now remain to be considered. Tanka has not been so far identified. Arabs of Sindh were now and then attacking their western neighbours and Dantidurga seems to have defeated some of these raids. Some time after the first defeat of Kīrtivarman, Dantidurga seems to have led an expedition to Ujjain either to help the Gurjara-Pratihāra ruler Devarāja, or to take advantage of the defeat that was inflicted on him by the rival Gurjara-Pratihāra king, Siluka, ruling at Bhinmal.³² This becomes quite clear from the Das'avatāra record which states that Dantidurga was occupying a palace of the Gurjara ruler³³ and from the Sanjan plates where we are informed that when Dantidurga performed the *Hiranya-garbhadāna* ceremony at Ujjain, the Gurjara ruler acted as his door-keeper.