The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.14

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The later records of the Mâlkheḍ family represent the Râshṭrakûṭas as descendants of Yadu in the Sômavaṁśa or Lunar Race;⁷ some of them adding that they belonged to the Sâtyaki branch or clan.⁸ But this statement, which appears first in the Nausârî grants of Indra III. of A. D. 915, simply belongs to a period when all the great families of Southern India were devising Purâṇic pedigrees,⁹ and does not necessarily prove that the Râshṭrakûṭas were Âryans. And Dr. Burnell was apparently inclined to look on them as being of Drâviḍian origin: for, he gave the word râshṭra as a mythological perversion of raṭṭa; which he held to be equivalent to the Kanarese and Telugu raḍḍi or reḍḍi;¹⁰ and the latter word is explained in the dictionaries as de-