The Rashtrakutas and their Times c9.s3.34

c9.s3.34

Apart from a few local reverses, (50) success seems to have attended Govinda's arms everywhere. The army under the Gujrat viceroy Indra was ultimately victorious; the Baroda plates of his son Karka, issued in 811-2 A.D., state that Indra was able to rout out single-handed the lord of the Gurjars. The expeditions against the central Indian rulers were equally successful. (51) After defeating the ruler of Chitrakūṭa Govinda himself marched into the Doab. He defeated Nāgabhaṭa II and apparently pressed right up to the Himalayan ranges. (52) Nāgabhaṭa's defeat was fairly decisive; he had to retire to the deserts of Rajputana. Chakrāyudha was a mere puppet and offered voluntary submission. Dharmapāla also is said to have done the same, (53) probably because he was shrewd enough to realise that it was politically wise to humour Govinda III, who had indirectly obliged him by overthrowing his greatest enemy, Nāgabhaṭa II. Govinda, he knew, would soon retire to the south, leaving him free to exploit the situation created by the defeat of the Gurjara-Pratihāra ruler.