gargacandra had again been kingmaker in allying with sussala, whom stein believes to have been "personally brave, but rash, cruel and inconsiderate" and whose rule was, "practically one long and disastrous struggle with the irrepressible dāmaras and with dangerous pretenders." as part of their alliance, gargacandra arranged the marriage of two of his daughters, one to sussala and one to sussala's son, jayasimha. having turned on gargacandra and defeated him, sussala was faced by other dāmaras who in the absence of the once-dominant kingmaker saw an opportunity to challenge the king. they found a potential candidate for the throne in bhikşācara, a grandson of harsa. and managed to install him briefly in 1120 when their numbers had swollen sufficiently in opposition to the brutally oppressive measures adopted by sussala. the restoration of harsa's dynastic line did not last for long: a fightback by sussala, who had decamped in defeat from srinagar to lohar, resulted in the pretender being deposed around six months later, in early 1121. thereafter, sussala resumed his oppression and treated the wealth of his people as being his own. he also imprisoned troublesome members of his own family but, like others before him, he was unable to control the lawlessness among the feudatory chiefs. while squabbling among the dāmaras had assisted him in regaining the throne, he found himself frequently under siege upon his return as they sought to maintain a state of near anarchy in which they could profit for themselves.