The Rashtrakutas and their Times c21.69

c21.69

It may be noted that during our period, as in earlier times, not all the fighters were Kshatriyas and not all the Kshatriyas were fighters. The army consisted of a number of non-Kshatriyas as pointed out in chapter XII. A number of Kshatriyas also must have taken to professions theoretically not their own. In the 17th century such was the case, for Travernier expressly states that the Rajputs were the fighters, whereas the remaining Khatris, *i. e.* Kshatriyas, had degenerated from their ancestral military profession and taken to trade.⁴⁸ This tendency may have very probably made its appearance during our period.