The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s3.36.2

v2.c30.s3.36.2

It would seem from the proximity of the dates of the last Broach Gurjara and Kakka that Lāṭa, roughly the region between the Mahi and the Narbada, was conquered by the Rāṣṭrakūṭas from Jayabhaṭa III (*c.* 706-36 A.D.).³ But the Hansot plates of the Cāhamāna Bhartṛvaḍḍha II, dated in V. S. 813 (*c.* 756 A.D.), shows that the Gurjara Jayabhaṭa III must have been followed at Broach by this Cāhamāna feudatory of Gurjara-Pratīhāra Nāgabhata I.⁴ It was probably from Bhartṛvaḍḍha II or one of his successors that the Rāṣṭrakūṭas conquered Lāṭa. In the time of Nirupama-Dhruva Lāṭa appears to have been placed in charge of his distinguished son Govinda III. The latter after his accession to the throne made extensive raids into the Pratīhāra dominions in Northern India, and then appointed his younger brother Indra-rāja as his viceroy in the Lāṭeśvara-*maṇḍala*. The grants of Indra's successors show that they not only held the territory between the Tapti and Mahi, but that their power also sometimes extended from the river Ambika to the Sabarmati. Many of their grants were made from places in the modern Kaira district. The unfortunate attempt of Dhruva I (*c.* 835-67), the grandson of Indra, to shake off the yoke of Malkhed, which involved the two branches in civil war, appears to have served as a check on the further expansion of Rāṣṭrakūṭa power on this frontier for more than half a century.