The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.s1.15

c20.s1.15

An inscription of the time of Vikramāditya VI, dated 1095-6 A.D.,¹⁶⁶ proves the existence of two Buddhist monasteries at Dambal in Dharwar district. It is very likely that the antiquity of these establishments would go back at least to our, if not an earlier, period. There was a temple of the Buddha and Tārā at the place in the 11th century and the description and importance of Tārā, as attested to by our record, would suggest that the establishment was a Mahāyāna one. In the Mahāyāna system Tārā was invoked for help in distress on land and sea and our inscription also shows that similar was the conception about that deity in the Deccan of our period. Cf.:—