The Rashtrakutas and their Times c28.118

c28.118

In Part II (Administration) and Part III (Religious, Social and Economic conditions etc.) it is more difficult to distinguish the features proper to the Rāṣṭrakūṭa period and area from those of greater areas in space and time; and to a certain extent Professor Altekar is constrained to seek information outside the predetermined limits. He endeavours, however, and it seems successfully, to elicit the specialities. It is not his fault if, for the most part the methods of Indian administration have rather been uniform and constant. The notes on p. 136 concerning the employment of the term rāṣṭrapati and the discussion (pp. 213-6) of the meanings of the terms udranga and uparikara, adduce new points in matters of known obscurity......