The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.7
The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c8.7
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c8.7
Such then was the political condition in India, when Indra I began his political career. The Sanjan plates inform us that he had married the Chālukya princess Bhavanāgā by *rākshasa* form of marriage at Kaira.(5) This event must have taken place some time after 722 A.D. Kaira was then still under the rule of the Valabhi house, as the Gondal plates of Silāditya V show.(6) Very soon thereafter Kaira and Panchmahal districts were lost by the Valabhi kingdom; no record belonging to that dynasty comes from this area during the next 29 years. This negative evidence is confirmed by the Kavi plates of Jayabhaṭṭa III of Bharoch,(7) where that ruler claims to have defeated the king of Valabhi by the skill of his sword.