[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Rashtrakutas and their Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934) › c8.18 # The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.18 The Rāṣṭrakūṭas and their Times c8.18 - **Language:** English ### [c8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c8.18) 11. I. A. XI, pp. 111 ff. The genuineness of this record has been recently called into quetion by Drs. Sukhtankar and Bhandarkar (E. I. XIV, pp. 121-2; Ibid, XVIII, p. 236). Dr. Sukhtankar's conclusion, which is mainly based on palæographical grounds, is that the plates are a few decades later than the alleged time of their issue. The palæographical test is, however, a hardly convincing one when the difference is only of a few decades. If we compare the Talegaon plates of Krishna I with the Samangad plates, we no doubt find that the duct of the former is much more archaic than that of the latter; but the s'a in the latter record is more archaic than the s'a in the former. The sign-manual of Dadda Pras'antaraga in his Kaira Plates of 669 A.D. is in characters at least two centuries later than that date. (J. R. A. S., 1864, p. 205). The same is the case of the Mathura Jain inscriptions of the Kushana period, whose characters are much in advance of their age. It is clear from the last two cases that the current hand was considerably in advance of the monumental writing, and it is not impossible that the characters of the Samangad plates appear a few decades later than the date of the record, not because it is not genuine but because it is written in the current, rather than in the monumental script of the period. The names of the villages have been tampered with in this record, and if we have to suppose that the record is not genuine, it will be a case of double forgery. Palæographical evidence being inconclusive in this matter, attention may be drawn to a few points which would show that the record is a genuine one: - [Previous: c8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c8.17) - [Next: c8.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c8.19) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.altekar-1934.c8.18) · Pramāṇa