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exaggeration. The decline of the Gurjara Pratīhāras had nothing especially to do with the northern expedition of Indra III. It was hastened by constant warfare on all fronts and especially by the protracted struggle for the throne (after the death of Mahīpāla I) about the middle of the tenth century A.D. Cf. Ray, D.H.N.I., Vol. I, pp. 580-90.