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years. After their fall the Chālukyas again came into power.¹ Harshavardhana (606—648) also built up an empire in Northern India about the time when the Chālukyas were powerful in Southern India. None of these empires, however, comprised whole India. Buddhism and Jainism could not have flourished alongside Brahmanical Hinduism under the Rāshtrakutas. Some of the Rāshtrakuta Kings may have been in favour of Jainism but none seems to have favoured Buddhism. “Under them,” says Sir R. G. Bhandarkar, “the worship of the Purāṇic gods rose to much greater importance than before. The days when kings and princes got temples and monasteries cut out of the solid rock for the use of the followers of Gautama Buddha had gone by, never to return”².