The Rashtrakutas and their Times c7.s1.53

c7.s1.53

The seal of Karka II of the Antroli-Chharoli record is the same as that of the main Rāṣṭrakūṭa branch, *viz.* eagle; the names of the ancestors of the donor are those, which frequently figure in the main Rāṣṭrakūṭa line. Karka II was a contemporary of Dantidurga and was ruling over a portion of Lāṭa, which the latter claims to have conquered. It is therefore quite clear that the house of Karka must have been closely connected with that of Dantidurga, but what precisely that relationship was we do not know. Bhagwānlāl Indraji has suggested²³ that Dhruva of the Antroli-Chharoli record may be assumed to be another brother of Indra I, the father of Dantidurga. On this hypothesis the genealogy of the main line with known dates will be as under:-