History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c17.s5.37

c17.s5.37

Perhaps the Guhilas (Guhilots) also broke off all relations with the Pratīhāras not long after the Vikrama year 1003 or 946 A. D., the date of the Partabgarh inscription, for we learn from the Atpur inscription that Mahārājādhirāja Bhaṭṛipaṭṭa II, who is recorded in the former epigraph to have made a perpetual land grant to the deity Indrarājāditya-deva of Ghoṇṭāvarṣikā in V. E. 999 = 943 A. D., married a Rāṣṭrakūṭa princess,⁴ which clearly indicates that he had formed an alliance with their traditional rivals. Lastly, the kingdom of Bhatinda¹ came into prominence in the Panjab, and gradually extended “in length from Sirhind to Lumghan and in breadth from the kingdom of Kashmir to Mooltan.”² Thus within the course of half a century the disintegration of the Pratihāra empire was almost complete, and once more Northern India presented its normal aspect of a group of independent and mutually warring states.