The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.63

v1.c16.63

The success of the Pālas appears to have been of short duration. At any rate if the Rāṣṭrakūṭa records are to be believed, both Cakrāyudha and Dharmapāla were in distress evidently due to the attack of Nāgabhaṭa sometime before 814 A.D. Thus Dharmapāla's imperial position in Northern India had vanished, and if the Sanjan plates mean anything, he tried to form an alliance with the Rāṣṭrakūṭa Govinda III for checking Nāgabhaṭa II. As verse 22 of the same inscription shows, the alliance probably resulted in the defeat of Nāgabhaṭa about 807-08 A.D.;¹ but the advance of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa army up to the Vindhyas was probably not favourable to the re-establishment of Pāla hegemony in Northern India.²