The Rashtrakutas and their Times c24.5

c24.5

The most glaring defect of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa polity was its inability to secure a peaceful succession to the throne at the death of its previous occupant. There was a war of succession almost at every alternate accession. The dynastic history of no other Hindu dynasty is probably disfigured by so many wars of succession. It is, therefore, the more remarkable that the empire should have had so long and glorious a career.