The Rashtrakutas and their Times c7.s1.62

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There is nothing impossible in the above genealogy and chronology. Nanna, the youngest brother of Karka I, we may assume, was born in c. 715 A.D. and Dhruva, his eldest brother, may have been his senior by about 20 years. Dhruva's son Govinda may have been born in c. 715 A.D. and his grandson Karka II, in c. 735 A.D. Indra may have been two years younger than Dhruva, and his son Dantidurga may have been born in c 720 A.D. Indra seems to have been the most ambitious of the four brothers and his son Dantidurga may have begun his military career in c. 745 A.D. when he was only about 25. Shivaji and Babar are known to have begun their careers at even an earlier age. Dantidurga's nephew may have actively assisted him in his conquests when he was only a youth of 20; the uncle may have rewarded the services of the nephew by appointing him the governor over the newly conquered province of Lāṭa. After the death of Dantidurga in c. 760 A.D. Kṛṣṇa, his eldest surviving uncle, may have succeeded him, being the most senior member of the house. The drawback in this theory is the necessity of assuming that Dhruva, Govinda and Karka II were, all of them, the oldest sons of their parents, and even after making this assumption we find that Karka II has to be assumed to have joined his uncle, when he was only just a boy of 18 or 20. It is also difficult to understand why a youth of about 20 should have been preferred by Dantidurga for the Gujrat viceroyalty to his two mature uncles.