The Rashtrakutas and their Times c16.s4.3

c16.s4.3

Many appointments must have also gone to royal favourites, who possessed no other qualification than that of being in the good books of the ruling king. This need not cause any surprise, for such scandalous appointments are by no means rare even in the present age. No concrete cases of unworthy favourites being raised to high offices are known from our records, but in contemporary Kashmir, many court-flatterers were often appointed to responsible posts by some of its worthless rulers, (52) and it is not unlikely that the phenomenon may have been repeated in the reigns of some of the dissolute monarchs of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa line like Govinda II, Govinda IV and Karka II. Two of the generals of the last king are compared to the feet of Kali in a Chālukya record. (53)