The Rashtrakutas and their Times c7.s1.110

c7.s1.110

If we assume with Fleet and Vaidya that the home of the Malkhed Rāṣṭrakūṭas was either in Mahārāṣṭra or somewhere in Central India, we cannot explain how they were using the Canarese language and the southern script. If we assume that they were local chiefs somewhere in central or southern Karnatak, we cannot understand how Dantidurga's exploits were most of them performed in Gujrat, Malva, Central India, and northern Mahārāṣṭra, and how the Chalukyas of Badāmi continued to hold the southern portions of their dominions down to the reign of Kṛṣṇa I. If on the other hand, we assume that they were immigrants in Berar from Lāṭūr, we can understand why they call themselves Laṭṭalūra-puravarādhīśa, why they were using the proto-Canarese script and the Canarese language, why their early exploits were performed in Central India, Gujrat and northern Mahārāṣṭra and why the early Chalukyas continued to hold their own so long in the southern portion of their kingdom.