The Rashtrakutas and their Times c8.s1.25

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The overthrow of the Cālukyas was complete and decisive, and it is only rarely that we come across even Cālukya feudatories in the first century of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa rule. Only three such feudatories come to our notice. (i) Kaṭṭiyira of Diḍgur inscription (49) was possibly a Cālukya chief but he was a very petty ruler. Kaṭṭiyiradeva, who is mentioned as an ancestor of later Cālukyas in Managoli inscription, (50) may possibly be this Kaṭṭiyira. (ii) Kadba plates of Govinda III (51) disclose another Cālukya feudatory named Yaśovarman, but since he had to requisition the services of the Ganga chief to secure the permission of Govinda III for certain grants it is doubtful whether he was a ruler of even a mediocre feudatory status. (iii) Mahāsāmanta Budhavarsha of the Torkhede plates of Govinda III (52) was possibly of Cālukya extraction, but his feudal sway extended over only 12 villages. Arikesarin was a powerful Cālukya feudatory, but he belongs to the eve of the rise of the later Cālukyas. It seems clear that Kṛṣṇa had not permitted any member of the dethroned dynasty to occupy a position of any political importance in his empire.