The Rashtrakutas and their Times c7.s1.73

c7.s1.73

R. G. Bhandarkar had suggested that the Rāṣṭrakūṭas had probably sprung from a family that was known by the name of Tuṅga (29), since in the Karhad (30) and Deoli plates (31) of Kṛṣṇa III it is stated that the family had its origin from a king named Tunga. The above plates, however, mention in the immediately next line Raṭṭa as a descendant or perhaps a son of Tunga, and observe that the Rāṣṭrakūṭa family was known after him. Both Tunga and Raṭṭa are imaginary rather than real rulers, and even if we suppose that the family was descended from them, we find ourselves in no better position about the solution of the question of the stock and the original home of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas.