Mihirakula was forced to pay homage and the Hunas lost their hold on the plains.
01The Sondani pillars
At Sondani, a village just outside Mandsaur, two monolithic pillars, one fallen and broken, carry the same inscription. It says Yashodharman ruled lands that neither the Guptas nor the Hunas had held, from the Lauhitya, the Brahmaputra, to the western ocean and from the Himalaya to Mahendra mountain. And it says that King Mihirakula, whose head had never bowed except to Sthanu, Shiva, did homage at his feet. A separate stone at Mandsaur is dated in the Malava era year 589, which is 532 CE.
02Other accounts
Xuanzang, writing a century later, heard in India that Mihirakula persecuted the Buddhists and was defeated and captured by Baladitya of Magadha, then released at the queen mother’s plea. Kalhana’s Rajatarangini remembers Mihirakula ruling Kashmir and gives him a terrible name there. Whether Yashodharman and Baladitya fought together or apart, the two records agree that the Hunas were broken in the plains in the 520s.
It ended Huna power in the Gangetic plains and Malwa.