The Rashtrakutas and their Times c9.s2.12
The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c9.s2.12
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c9.s2.12
21. The statement of Jinasena पूर्वाम् श्रीमदवन्तिभूभृतिनृपे वत्सादिराजे......। has to be understood to mean that Vatsarāja was ruling at Avanti', especially since we know from the Sanjan plates that there was a Gurjara-Pratīhāra ruler at Avanti in the time of Dantidurga also. The Malava ruler, who helped Govinda II, must, therefore, have been this Vatsarāja or perhaps a local governor of his, and one of the reasons that induced Dhruva to undertake this expedition in the north must have been to punish the Gurjara-Pratīhāra ruler for his partisanship with Govinda II.