The Rashtrakutas and their Times c9.s3.39

c9.s3.39

Govinda's expedition in northern India was merely of the nature of a *digvijaya*. He compelled both Nāgabhaṭa II and Dharmapāla, each of whom was seeking to make the titular king Chakrāyudha a puppet in his own hands, to recognize his suzerainty. He did not annex any portions of their normal kingdoms, though he must have exacted heavy tributes from them. The same was the case with the central Indian rulers, perhaps with the exception of Malva. We do not know who the Malva ruler was, who in the Wani-Dindori⁵⁴ plates is described as submitting to Govinda. He may possibly have been a feudatory governor of Nāgabhaṭa II, appointed to govern Malva when his master was preoccupied with the conquest of Kanauj. The statement in Baroda plates of Karka, issued in 812 A.D., that Karka was made a door-bolt to protect Malva against the Gurjara attack, suggests that Malva was almost assimilated to the Rāṣṭrakūṭa dominions as a result of this expedition.