TRIPARTITE STRUGGLE

TRIPARTITE STRUGGLE

On the ruins of Harsha's empire two fJwerful kingdoms rose in the north: the Palas in Bengal and the Pratiharas in northern and western India. At about t~e ,~Tl1.e time;the Rashtrakutas were in power in the nortl-t~rn Jeccan. The most striking feature of the period betwet' AD 750 and 1000 was the tripartite struggle between the Pahs, Pratiharas and the Rashtrakutas for the control of Ke.nauj, which had replaced Pataliputra as the symbol of "ower and sover­elgnty following the reign of Harsha. The Rashtrakutas have already been discussed in Chapter 9; now we briefly consider the Palas and Pratiharas.