History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c16.s1.t5.22

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Undaunted by this effective check to his advance eastward, Bhoja next directed his energies towards the south, from which side the Rāṣṭrakūṭas had so often emerged to despoil the smiling fields of Kanauj. The Partabgarh inscription of Mahendrapāla II, discovered in southern Rajputana,⁵ probably contains an allusion to his expeditions in the south-western regions, since we are told therein that a Cāhamāna family of kings was “a source of great pleasure to king Bhojadeva,”⁶ who clearly appears from the context of the passage to be identical with our Bhoja I. Thus with the help of this local Cāhamāna dynasty Bhoja must have overrun southern Rajputana and the tracts round Ujjayinī upto the Narmada river, which had many a time in the past been the field of Rāṣṭrakūṭa operations. Perhaps it was during his time that these parts were definitely assimilated in the Kanauj empire, and as we shall see later on, they continued to be under Mahendrapāla II even, who had stationed one Mādhava as "the great feudatory lord and governor," at Ujjayinī, and another officer Śrīśarman was carrying on the affairs of state at Maṇḍapikā or Maṇḍū.