The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.152

c20.152

The theories of heaven and hell, retribution and rebirth make their appearance almost everywhere in the epigraphical records of our period, and chapter and verse need be quoted to prove their general prevalence. Many of the kings of our period claim credit for having restored the Dharma as it existed in the Kṛta age; this statement would show that the theory of the progressively degenerating cycles of the yugas or ages was well established in our period.