Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c8.23

c8.23

This Govinda, the brother and successor of Karka, was also called Prabhūtavarsha. One plate of Govinda's Kāvī grant is dated Śaka 749 (A.D. 827). It gives no details regarding Govinda. The grant is made from Broach and records the gift of a village to a temple of the Sun called Jayāditya in Kotipur near Kapikā that is Kāvī thirty miles north of Broach. The writer of the grant is Yogēśvara son of Avalokita and the Dūtaka or grantor was one Bhaṭṭa Kumuḍa. As it contains no reference to Govinda's succession the plate favours the view that Govinda remained in power only during the minority of his nephew Dhruva.