The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.s1.14

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He must have spent some time in consolidating his position; but that was not much. Soon he undertook an offensive expedition against Gangavadi; for his Talegaon plates (43) show him encamped in 768 A.D. at Maṇṇe in Mysore state during the course of that expedition. An echo of this invasion of Gangavadi is heard in a lithic record from Tumkur district, (44) immortalising the memory of a hero, who had fallen in the war caused by the rising of the Raṭṭas against Gangavadi. Since this record refers itself to the reign of Srīpurusha, it is clear that this aged ruler was on the throne of Gangavadi when Kṛṣṇa invaded it after annexing the Chālukya dominions. The issue of Talegaon plates from Maṇṇe, the Ganga capital, shows that Kṛṣṇa was successful in his expedition. Kṛṣṇa's expedition against the Gangas was not known before the publication of his Talegaon plates.