Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c8.14

c8.14

According to Gujarat Govinda's (A.D. 827-835) Kavi grant (A.D. 827), finding his power threatened by Stambha and other kings, Dhruva made the grant to Govinda, independently fixing his own kingdom. This suggests that while Dhruva continued to hold the main Râshṭrakūṭa sovereignty in the Dekhan, he probably invested Govinda with the sovereignty of Gujarat. The fact the Kavi grant (A.D. 827) finding a favourit grant would hardly mention while it would not find a place in the Râdhanpur (A.D. 808) and Van-Dindori (A.D. 808) grants of the same Râshṭrakūṭas. Of the chiefs who opposed Govinda the chief was Stambha who may have some connection with Cambay as, during the time of the Anahilavâḍa kings, Cambay came to be called Stambha-tīrtha instead of by its old name of Gâmbhuṭa. According to the grants the allied chiefs were no match for Govinda. The Gurjaras fled through fear, not returning even in dream, and the Mâlwa king submitted. Who these Gurjaras were is hard to say. He may have belonged to some Gurjara dynasty that rose to importance after Dantidurga's conquest or the name may mean a ruler of the Gurjara country. In either case some North Gujaratarâṭra is meant whose conquest opened the route from Broach to Mâlwa. From Mâlwa Govinda marched to the Vindhyas where the king apparently of East Mâlwa named Marâ Śarva submitted to Govinda paying tribute. From the Vindhyas Govinda returned to Gujarat passing the rains at Śrībhavana, apparently Sâbhôn in the Aned taluka of Broach, a favourite locality which he had ruled during his father's lifetime. After the rains Govinda went south as far as the Tungabhadrâ, in starting for the south Govinda handed Gujarat to his brother Indra with whom begins the Gujarat branch of the Râshṭrakūṭas. Several plates distinctly mention that Indra was given the kingdom of the lord of Lâṭa by his brother Govinda. Other Gujarat grants, apparently with intent to show that Indra won Gujarat and did not receive it in gift, after mentioning Śarva Amoghavarsha as the successor of Govinda (A.D. 818), state that the king (apparently of Gujarat) was Śarva's uncle Indra.