The Rashtrakutas and their Times c15.6

c15.6

are more figurative than real. For we have already seen that Amoghavarsha III and Dhruva owed their elevation to the throne more to their own exertions than to the votes of the feudatories. The kingship was thus hereditary in our period and the crown passed usually to the eldest, and sometimes to the ablest son, as in the case of Govinda III.