Rashtrakuta dynasty

At their peak the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta ruled a vast empire stretching from the Ganges River and Yamuna River doab in the north to Kanyakumari in the south. The early kings of this dynasty were influenced by Hinduism and the later kings by Jainism. During their rule, Jain mathematicians and scholars contributed important works in Kannada and Sanskrit.

About Rashtrakuta dynasty in brief

Rashtrakuta was a royal dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the sixth and 10th centuries. At their peak the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta ruled a vast empire stretching from the Ganges River and Yamuna River doab in the north to Kanyakumari in the south. The early kings of this dynasty were influenced by Hinduism and the later kings by Jainism. During their rule, Jain mathematicians and scholars contributed important works in Kannada and Sanskrit. The sources for Rashtrakuta history include medieval inscriptions, ancient literature in the Pali language, contemporaneous literature in Sanskrit and Kannado. Theories about the dynastic lineage, the native region and the ancestral home have been proposed, based on information gleaned from inscriptions and royal emblems. The relationship of these medieval Rash Amtrakutas to the most famous later dynasty has also been debated. The earliest known Rash Amtrakuta inscription is a 7th-century copper plate grant detailing their rule from Manapura, a city in Central or West India. Scholars debate over which ethniclinguistic groups can claim the early RashtrakUTas. Possibilities include the north western ethnic groups of India, the Kannadiga, Reddi, the Maratha, or the tribes from the Punjab region. The rulers of the imperial dynasty in the 8th to 10th century made the Kavirajamarga, a landmark literary work in theKannada language, one of the best examples of the Dravidian style of architecture.

The most important contributions are the Kashivishvanatha temple and the Jain Narayana temple at Pattadakal in modern Karnataka, both of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Rashtrakuts were conversant in the northern and Deccan language as well as the Sanskrit language. They were also fluent in a northern dialect of Kannadi, which they used to rule nearly all of Karnataka and parts of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, an area which they ruled for over two centuries. The origin of the Rash Amtrakuts has been a controversial topic of Indian history. It is thought that they were the ancestors of the Ashoka dynasty, which ruled from the 2nd century BCE to the 4th century BCE. They ruled small kingdoms in northern and central India and the DeCCan between the 6th and 7th centuries and ruled for a short period of time in the 7th and 8th century. They are believed to have taken control of the northern regions of the Badami Chalukya empire in 753 AD and took control of northern India in 754 AD. This period saw a tripartite struggle for the resources of the rich Gangetic plains, each of these three empires annexing the seat of power at Kannauj for short periods of time. An Arabic text, Silsilat al-Tawarikh, called the RashTorrentas one of four principal empires of the world.

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