The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c31.s5.24

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The throne was occupied for two or three years by Bhoja II, elder son of Mahendrapāla, who died early, and was succeeded by his half-brother, Mahīpāla (*c.* A. D. 910–40).¹ The beginning of the decline and fall of the empire of Kanauj dates from his reign. In A. D. 916 the armies of the Rāshtrakūta king, Indra III, once more captured Kanauj, and gave a severe blow to the power of the Pratihāra dynasty.² Surāshtra, which was still subject to Mahīpāla in 914,³ probably was then lost along with other remote provinces, in consequence of the successes gained by the southern monarch. Indra III not being in a position to hold Kanauj, Mahīpāla recovered his capital with the aid of the Chandēl king, and probably other allies.⁴