The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c19.s2.t2: (b) The Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Betul
The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c19.s2.t2
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(b) The Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Betul
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The existence of this family is also known from a single grant, the *Multāi grant* of Nandarāja. It was found in the possession of a Gosain resident at Multāī, the chief town of the Multāī sub-division of the Betul district in the C. P.¹ It contains 31 lines of writing in Nāgarī characters, incised on 3 plates. The seal, which is a part of the ring itself, bears in outline the figure of *Garuḍa* and the legend *Śrī Yuddhāsuraḥ*. The record opens with *Oṁ svasti*, and then gives the following genealogy of the donor :
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¹ Fleet pointed out that the localities mentioned in the grant do not bear any resemblance to any villages in the Multāī district or in Hoshangabad or Jubbulpore. It is therefore not certain that the grant really belongs to the locality where it was found. 'All that can be said on this point is that the characters show that it belongs to some part of Central India or of the Central Provinces;' *IA*, Vol. XVIII, pp. 230-81.
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In the *Rāṣṭrakūṭānvaya*
Durgarāja
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Govindarāja
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Svāmikarāja
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Nandarāja, *alias* Yuddhāsura.
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The object of the grant is to record the grant of the village of Jalaūkuhe to the Brahman Śrīprabha Caturveda. In line 29 we are told that the charter was written by the *Sāndhivigrahika* Naula in *Śaka-kāla-saṁvatsara* 631 (*c.* 709 A.D.).²
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² First published by Prinsep in *JASB*, Vol. VI, pp. 869 ff. Re-edited by Fleet, *IA*, Vol. XVIII, pp. 230-86.
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Fleet thought that this family was a feudatory line. The figure on the seal is similar to that on the seal of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Malkheḍ. It may indicate that two lines were connected, but the connection is not apparent.