The Rashtrakutas and their Times c9.s3.49
The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c9.s3.49
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From Sribhavana or Sarbhon he proceeded to the south to teach a lesson to the Dravidian kings who had formed an alliance against him. The members of this confederacy were the rulers of Gangawādi, Kerala, Pāṇḍya, Chola and Kāñchī kingdoms. These were all of them defeated.(58) Several battalions of the Ganga army, or perhaps some members of the royal family,(59) were put to the sword, Kāñchī was once more occupied, and the Chola and Pāṇḍya kingdoms were overrun. The fate of these states frightened the king of Ceylon who hurried to offer submission, sending his own statue and that of his minister to Govinda, while the latter was encamped at Kāñchī.(60) Govinda sent them on to Mālkhed to be put in front of a Śiva temple as columns of victory.