The Rashtrakutas and their Times c18.s2.t1.2

c18.s2.t1.2

Mineral wealth included salt mines as well, the ownership in which was expressly claimed by the Gahadwals and the Cholas.¹⁰⁸ The Rāshṭrakūṭa records nowhere expressly claim this right for the state. That may be perhaps due to its not having claimed any royalty in the salt manufacture; it is, however, also possible that the expression *sahābhyantara-siddhi* having included that right as well, it was not deemed necessary to specify it separately. It is, however, rather strange that even the records of the Sīlāhāras, whose dominions included the coastal districts where salt must have been manufactured on a large scale, should not be specifically claiming this right. That might perhaps show that the Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their feudatories did not claim the salt monopoly like the Cholas and the Gahadwals.