The Rashtrakutas and their Times c7.s1.66

c7.s1.66

In the second place the known dates of Dantidurga and Kṛṣṇa I militate against this view. Even supposing it to be proved that the Samangad record is a later forgery, the chronological difficulties involved in this theory are not solved. The new plates²⁵ published by the Bhārata Itihāsa Samshodhaka Mandala now supply 758 A.D. as the earliest date for Kṛṣṇa I, and if we accept 757 A.D. as the date of Dantidurga's grandfather Karka, the reigns of Dantidurga and his father Indra will have to be crammed in the incredibly short space of about a year! The reigns of both these rulers were eventful; Indra I had come into hostile contact with the Gujrat Chālukyas, and Dantidurga had in the course of a brilliant career defeated the kings of Mālvā, Sindh, Kośala, Lāṭa and Śris'aila, besides annexing the northern dominions of the early Chālukyas. How could all this be achieved in the course of a single year? Even if we assume that Indra had predeceased his father, the difficulty would not be got over, for one year is too short a period for the achievements of Dantidurga.