The Rashtrakutas and their Times c19.s2.26
The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c19.s2.26
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Third-rate feudatories felt the heels of the imperial shoes still more severely. In the Kapadwanj plates of Kṛṣṇa II(89) we find the emperor giving away in charity a village situated within the jurisdiction of his feudatory Mahāsāmanta-prachaṇḍadaṇḍanāyaka Chandragupta. In the Kadarol inscription of Someśvara, we find a feudatory chief agreeing to pay annually five golden Gadyanakas for a certain charity, because he was commanded to do so by Someśvarabhatta, the premier of the Imperial power.(90) It would be thus seen that the smaller feudatories had to remain in the dread, not only of their emperor, but also of his ministers and ambassadors.