The Rashtrakutas and their Times c7.s1.11

c7.s1.11

(2) Fleet had suggested that king Attivarman, mentioned in a grant hailing from Guntur district (9), may probably have been a Rāṣṭrakūṭa prince (10). This suggestion also is to be ruled out of order, because there is hardly anything to support it. The provenance and the characters of the grant show that it is very probably a Pallava record. The mythological descent from Hiranyagarbha, which Attivarman claims, would also suggest that he was a Pallava, rather than a Rāṣṭrakūṭa ruler. Rāṣṭrakūṭa rulers of no branch whatever make any mention of Ānandamarshi with whom Attivarman claims to be connected. The only ground for suggesting that Attivarman may have been a Rāṣṭrakūṭa is the expression 'Kandharanrpatikulodbhūtena', used with reference to Attivarman. But this expression is hardly sufficient to prove that Attivarman was a Rāṣṭrakūṭa prince; for, the name Kṛṣṇa is used by several non-Rāṣṭrakūṭa rulers as well. Besides the Canarese *apabhraṃśa* of Kṛṣṇa is Kannara and not Kandhara.