The Rashtrakutas and their Times c16.s1.1

c16.s1.1

District officers were a replica on a smaller scale of the Rāṣṭrapatis. We have seen just now how even small Tahsil or Taluka officers had to be suppressed by military force when grown insubordinate; it is, therefore, clear that all the officers like the district, subdivisional and Taluka officers had some military forces under their command. Some of the district officers or *Vishayapatis* enjoyed the feudatory status like the provincial governors; thus Kundama-rāja, the governor of Kuntala vishaya in 1019 A.D., was a *mahāmaṇḍales'vara* entitled to the Pañcamahāśabdas.¹⁵ Whether all the district officers enjoyed this status is doubtful.