The Rashtrakutas and their Times c3.7

c3.7

The main sources of the book are the inscriptions of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, their contemporaries, and their immediate decessors and successors. These are supplemented by accounts of the Arabic travellers and the valuable book of Alberuni. Contemporary works like Somadeva's Yas'astilaka and Nītivākyāmṛta, Pampa's Vikramārjunavijaya and later Smṛtis and Purāṇas have also been utilised. Later travellers like Marco Polo, Ibn Batuta, Bernier and Tavernier have also been consulted with a view to see whether they could throw any light on our period.