The Rashtrakutas and their Times c9.s3.25

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Freed from the worries in the south, Govinda turned his attention to the east. Viṣṇuvardhana IV and Vijayāditya Narendrarāja were his contemporaries, but since we have to place the expedition against Vengi later than 804 A.D., (42) his Chālukya opponent was very probably Vijayāditya, who is known to have ruled from c. 799 to 843 A.D. Govinda attacked him probably because of the old feud between the two houses. He was a new ruler and therefore a good target for an aggressive conqueror. The Vengi ruler was defeated; a verse in the Radhanpur plates states that he was compelled to prepare a compound for the conqueror's stables, and another in the Sanjan plates of Amoghavarsha I describes the humiliation to which he was subjected, when compelled to cleanse the floor of Govinda's camp. The war which broke out at this time between the two states, lingered for twelve years in which as many as 108 battles are said to have been fought; (43) during the lifetime of Govinda the victory seems to have been with the Rāshṭrakūṭa forces, but things changed with the accession of the boy emperor Amoghavarsha.