The Rashtrakutas and their Times c3.4

c3.4

Part II (Chapters VII-XII,) contains a comparative study of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa administration. The books on the subject of Ancient Indian Politics are now so numerous, that the students of the subject may be inclined to feel some apprehension at the prospect of a new one being added to their number. It is, however, confidently hoped that a perusal of this part will show that epigraphical documents have a rich store of material bearing on the subject, which has been practically untouched to the present day. The information from the Rāṣṭrakūṭa inscriptions has been in several places compared to, contrasted with, and in some cases, where it seemed justifiable to do so, supplemented by the data supplied by the earlier, contemporary, and later inscriptions and works on the Nītiśāstra, Dharmaśāstra, and Arthaśāstra.