The Rashtrakutas and their Times c9.s1.13

c9.s1.13

⁹ In the Pimperi grant issued in 775 A.D., Dhruva altogether ignores his elder brother Govinda, who was the reigning sovereign; in the Dhulia plates of 779 A.D., (E. I., VIII, pp. 81 ff.), we find that Govinda II is mentioned as the ruling emperor, but the grantor Karka makes the grant with the sanction, not of Govinda, the emperor, but of his own father Dhruva. October 775 A.D. Kṛṣṇa I was still on the throne in June 772 A.D. It would be difficult to imagine that in the short space of about 3 years all the following events took place :-accession of Govinda II, his misrule, his entrusting the administration, first to Dhruva, and then to some strangers when the former showed disloyalty, Dhruva's effort to induce Govinda to abdicate, the latter's successful attempt in securing for himself the help of the hereditary enemies of his house, and the defeat of this big confederacy by Dhruva. As both the Pimperi and the Dhulia plates are genuine, the above reconstruction of history, here proposed for the first time, seems to be the only way out of the difficulty, created by the overlapping dates of these documents.