The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.17

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Nāgabhata presumably transferred the head-quarters of his government to Kanauj, which certainly was the capital of his successors for many generations, and so again became for a considerable time the premier city of Northern India. During the reign of Nāgabhata the chronic warfare between the Gurjaras, descendants of foreign invaders, and the Rāshtrakūtas (Rāthōrs) of the Deccan, representing the indigenous ruling races, continued, and the southern king, Govinda III, claims to have won a victory over his northern rival early in the ninth century.³ Nothing particular is recorded about Nāgabhata’s successor, Rāmabhadra (Rāmadeva), who reigned from about a.d. 834 to 840.