The Rashtrakutas and their Times c9.s3.46

c9.s3.46

(iii) At the beginning of the monsoon of 808 A.D. Govinda's army had just returned after prolonged operations in Northern and Central India, and it is therefore very unlikely that he would have subjected it to a long march to the Tungabhadra. The fact that the Rādhanpur plates were issued from Mayūrakhindī in Nasik district in July 808 A.D. would also show that Govinda did not proceed to the south, immediately after his northern campaign but spent the rainy season in the north. S'rībhavana ought to be, therefore, identified with Sarbhon in Bharoch district, and not with Shiggaon, the headquarters of Bankapur Taluka in Dharwar district, about 30 miles north of the Tungabhadra, as Fleet has suggested. There is also some phonetic difficulty in identifying Shiggaon with S'rībhavan. The same difficulty is encountered in considering the view of Wathen that S'rībhavana, where Govinda was encamped, is modern Cowldurg in Mysore.