The Rashtrakutas and their Times c10.s1.34

c10.s1.34

The territories over which the Gujrat branch ruled were bounded on the north by the Mahi. The Baroda grant of Karka grants Baroda itself, his Naosari plates were issued from Kaira; Baroda plates of his successor Dhruva I were issued from Sarvamangala near Kaira; all these show that the Mahi was the northern boundary.⁴³ The territory beyond was being governed by the feudatories of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra empire. The southern boundary seems to have varied; according to an unpublished Baroda grant of Dhruva II, dated 867 A.D., his dominion stretched from the Mahi to the Narmada only.⁴⁴ But a copper plate of this very monarch issued four years earlier grants a village near Naosari,⁴⁵ showing that his jurisdiction had then extended upto the Tapi. The strip of the territory between the Narmada and the Tapi seems to have been transferred between these two dates to the Śilāhāras of Konkan by Amoghavarsha I. The Surat plates of Karka, which I am editing at present, grant a piece of land in Ambāpāṭaka, a village near Naosari, showing that in his time the Tapi was the southern boundary. It is very likely that Amoghavarsha may have granted the territory between the Narmada and the Tapi as a reward for the loyal services of Karka, which the Gujrat Rāṣṭrakūṭas continued to hold till c. 862 A.D. It was probably taken away from them at the end of the long feud with Amoghavarsha I. Eastwards their authority could not have extended beyond the longitude 75, for the Ujjain kingdom was not permanently included in the Rāṣṭrakūṭa empire.