The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c35.14

v2.c35.14

During the first period (c. 915-98 A.D.) the power of the Gurjara-Pratīhāras of Kanauj steadily declined. The outlying provinces slowly broke away from the imperial structure and set up independent governments. The period of transition and political readjustment which had always intervened between the fall of one imperial power and the rise of another in India had already begun. Among the many tribes and princes struggling to capture the sceptre of the effete Pratīhāra princes we notice the two outstanding figures of the Paramāra Vākpati Muñja (c. 974-95 A.D.) and the Candella Dhaṅga (c. 954-1008 A.D.).