The Rashtrakutas and their Times c23.s2.6
The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c23.s2.6
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c23.s2.6
The main energy of the schools and colleges described in the last section was devoted to the study and cultivation of Sankrit; the Canarese literature had begun to flourish in Karnatak, but it is doubtful whether it had reached the stage when it could be recognised as a subject of study in secondary schools and colleges. As to Maharashtra, the Marathi language itself does not make its appearance in epigraphical records till the end of our period:(27) there could hardly have existed much literature in it. Even the late Mr. V. K. Rajwade has admitted that there was hardly any cultured literature in it till the end of the 10th century A.D. (28)