The Rashtrakutas and their Times c7.s1.71

c7.s1.71

Having indicated the probable relationship of the main Rāṣṭrakūṭa line with earlier and contemporary Rāṣṭrakūṭa ruling families, let us now consider the question of the stock and nationality of the house of Dantidurga. We may refer only very briefly to mythological or semi-mythological views in this connection. Later Rāṣṭrakūṭa records claim that the dynasty was descended from the race of Yadu. Bhagwānlāl Indraji had conjectured that this theory was started in c. 930 A.D., to explain the change in the emblem of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa seal from lion to eagle, which is the vāhana of Viṣṇu. This suggestion, however, is not happy; lion was the emblem of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Mānapura and not of Malkhed. The seal-emblems on the early Rāṣṭrakūṭa records, e g. the Alas plates of Yuvarāja Govinda, the Paiṭhan plates of Govinda III, are of Garuḍa or eagle. On some of the later records the emblem is that of seated Śiva but the lion emblem figures nowhere.