The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.s1.15

c8.s1.15

The Chālukyas of Vengi were next attacked, and this expedition was under the charge of Yuvarāja Govinda whom we find encamped on the confluence of the Musi and the Krishna—hardly 100 miles from Vengi itself—in 770 A.D. while conducting that expedition (45). Viṣṇuvardhana IV, who was then upon the Vengi throne, was defeated by Govinda. As a result of this victory a major part of the modern state of Hyderabad must have passed under the Rāṣṭrakūṭa sway. The recently published Bhanduk plates (46) of Kṛṣṇa show that in 772 A.D. practically the whole of Marathi C. P. was then under his rule.