The Rashtrakutas and their Times c9.s3.10

c9.s3.10

The accession of Govinda III took place peacefully, for the Paithan plates, issued within less than a year of the death of Dhruva, do not refer to any war of succession. But Stambha, who was an elder brother of Govinda, was smarting under the humiliation of his supercession, and soon formed a formidable confederacy of twelve kings to gain the throne to which he was legally entitled. The names of the allies of Stambha are not known, but we cannot be far wrong in assuming that they must have been some of the neighbouring and feudatory rulers (33) who must have been smarting under the treatment they had received from the dead emperor. The Sanjan plates inform us that a number of high officers of the state also joined the cause of Stambha.