The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.21

c8.21

does not occur in any other Rashtrakuta record; and it will be soon shown that the armies of Dantidurga had operated in the vallies of these rivers. If the record were not genuine, or based upon a genuine record, and if it were forged by the kramavid Brahmanas of Karad, the donees of the grant, the rivers mentioned in connection with the exploits of Dantidurga would have been big rivers like the Ganges, the Jumna etc. and not insignificant ones like the Mahi, the Mahanadi and the Reva. The fact that these comparatively unimportant rivers are mentioned would show that the grant is either genuine or based on an original document issued by Dantidurga.