The Rashtrakutas and their Times c7.s1.15

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(3) The Komaralingam grant of Ravidatta (11) mentions that the founder of the grantor's dynasty was a king called Rāṣṭravarman. Hultzsch had placed this record, which is undated, in the 5th century A.D., and suggested that the founder's name, Rāṣṭravarman, may suggest Rāṣṭrakūṭa overlordship over Punnaḍu Viṣaya (modern Salem and Coimtore districts). If this suggestion were to be accepted, it would follow that there was a Rāṣṭrakūṭa kingdom in the 5th century, which extended right up to Coimtore. This view is, however, untenable; the grant has been proved to be a forgery (12), probably of about the 9th century A.D.; and even if it were genuine, the mere occurrence of the term *rāṣṭra* in the founder's name, Rāṣṭravarman, is hardly sufficient to prove that he was a feudatory of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas.