History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c18.s3.8

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Yaśovarman’s scheme of digvijaya failed first in the south and finally when he met king Lalitāditya of the north. The details of this later defeat have already been noticed. Yaśovarman was not killed in that campaign though certain words in the Rājatarangiṇī would lead us to believe it. He remained in nominal subjection to Lalitāditya as usually happened in all histories of Indian empires as they were conceived before the Mahomedan conquest. Previous Indian empires, as we have often said, did not mean the annexation of territory and subdued states lived in practical independence subject to payment of tribute only. Yaśovarman must have lived till about 710 or later. One may be in entire agreement on this point with the late S. P. Pandit who in his introduction to Gauḍavaho asssigns to Yaśovarman a reign from 675 to 710 A. D.