[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Rashtrakutas and their Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934) › c19.s2.10 # The Rashtrakutas and their Times c19.s2.10 The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c19.s2.10 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c19.s2.10) The control, which the paramount power exercised, differed partly with the status of the feudatory and partly with the strength of the paramount power. General obedience to the orders of the imperial power was expected and exacted. Attendance at the imperial court was required not only on ceremonial occasions, but also at periodical intervals; otherwise we cannot understand how our literary writers and epigraphical documents should be always describing the imperial courts as full of feudatories. A regular tribute had to be paid; we find Govinda III touring about in the southern parts of his empire for the purpose of collecting the tributes due from his feudatories.(70) Special presents were expected on the occasions of festivity in the imperial household like the birth of a son or marriage.(71) As in medieval Europe, they had to supply a certain number of troops to their feudal lord and to participate in his imperial campaigns. Narasimha Chālukya, a feudatory of Indra III, had taken a prominent part in the latter's campaign against the Gurjara-Pratīhāra emperor, Mahīpāla.(72) The Gujarat Rāṣṭrakūṭa viceroyalty was created as a kind of bulwork against the Gurjara-Pratīhāras.(73) The Chālukyas of Vengi had to supply forces to the Rāṣṭrakūṭas in their wars against the Gangas.(74) From a Bangalore museum Ganga record(75) we learn that Nāgattara, a feudatory of the Gangas, had to participate with his own forces, at the bidding of his sovereign, in a feud between Ayyapadeva and Vīramahendra wherein he lost his life. This practice prevailed in northern India also; Chatsu inscription of Bālāditya(76) and the Kahla plates of Kalachuri Sodhadeva(77) show that the ancestors of these feudatories had to participate in the wars of their feudal lord, Mihira Bhoja, with the Pālas of Bengal. Much of the confusion that arises, while marshalling the facts of ancient Indian history, is due to the habit of the subordinate feudatories of claiming as their own the successes which were really won by their feudal lords. - [Previous: c19.s2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c19.s2.9) - [Next: c19.s2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c19.s2.11) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c19.s2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c19.s2.10) · Pramāṇa