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The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c19.s3.t2: (b) The Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Dhanop

The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c19.s3.t2

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(b) The Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Dhanop

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The existence of this family was made known by the discovery of the *Dhanop stone-inscription of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa Cacca*. It was found at Dhanop, 16 miles north of Shahpura, capital of the principality of the same name in Rajputana. It contains 13 lines, opening with *Oṁ namaḥ Śivāya* and a verse invoking Śiva. We are next introduced to a king named Cacca. Then we are given the following genealogy of the princes of this family :—

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Then we are told that many years after the passing away of these princes, a devotee of Siva named Nagna-bhaṭṭāraka, seeing that the god founded by the above-mentioned kings received no worship, went to king Cacca and said : “ O king, this temple belongs to the princes of your family ”¹ and induced him to renovate it, and it was dedicated to Śiva under the name Dhaṅkeśvara. The inscription was engraved by Rāmadeva. It ends with the date (V) *Saṁvat* 1063.²

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¹ This shows that Cacca was a Rāṣṭrakūṭa. But we do not know how he was related to the previous family.

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² Edited by D. R. Bhandarkar, *IA*, 1911, pp. 174-75.

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That the power of these Rāṣṭrakūṭas probably extended into the region now known as the State of Kotah is shown by the *Shergadh stone-inscription* dated in (V) S. 1074. This, together with two other records dated in (V) S. 1075 and 1084, was incised on a stone which was lying outside the temple of Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa at Shergadh, in the State of Kotah in Rajputana. It records that in V. S. 1074 the Seṭh Narasiṁha and two others made a grant of one *Karṣa* of ghee as unguent for the feet of Bhaṭṭāraka Nagnaka. There can hardly be any doubt that this last person is identical with the Nagna-bhaṭṭāraka of the Dhanop inscription of Cacca.³

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³ Edited by the same, *ibid*, pp. 175-76. Edited by the same, *ibid*, pp. 181-83.

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