The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.139

c8.s13.139

The manner in which some of the records³ say that, on the birth of Gōvinda III., the Rāshṭrakūṭa family became invincible to its foes, indicates that it was he who first placed the power of his dynasty on a really firm and wide footing. But his accession appears to have been attended by opposition; for the passage which mentions his being invested by his father with the *kanthikā* of Yuvarāja-ship is followed immediately by one which relates how, on his father's death, he had to contend against a confederacy of twelve kings, who had combined together to acquire the possession of the whole earth, and who apparently were led by a person named Stambha. This opposition, however, he quickly, and without extraneous aid, put down. The context of the same passages next describes him as releasing from long captivity, and sending back to his own country, a Gaṅga king,—evidently the one who had been conquered (and imprisoned) by his father,—but as being shortly compelled to reconquer him and put him in fetters again; as marching against the Gurjara king, who fled before him; as receiving the submission of the lord of Mālava, who was too politic to attempt to resist him; and as marching to the Vindhya mountains, and there reducing a prince named Mārasarva, who gained his goodwill by presenting his choicest heir-looms. And after this, it says, Gōvinda III. spent the rainy season at a place named Srībhavana, which has not yet been identified, and then marched with his army to the Tuṅgabhadrā, where he acquired still more wealth from the previously subjugated Pallavas; and it is perhaps in connection with this expedition that we have to take the Kanarese record, which mentions a grant that was made by him when, having conquered Dantiga, king of Kāñchī, and having gone to levy tribute from him, his encampments were on the bank of the Tuṅgabhadrā. Up to this time, the seat of the Rāshṭrakūṭa