The Rashtrakutas and their Times c20.s2.29
The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c20.s2.29
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The influence of religion is estimated by the result it produces upon character. What then was the general character of the people in our period? It is gratifying to find that the Arab merchants of the age, in spite of their religious differences, pay as high a compliment to the Indian character as was paid by Megasthenes and Yuan Chwang, Al Idrisi says¹⁸⁸: