[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v1.c19.s3.t2 # 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 - **Language:** English ### (b) The Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Dhanop ### [v1.c19.s3.t2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t2.1) 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 :— ### [v1.c19.s3.t2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t2.3) 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 ### [v1.c19.s3.t2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t2.4) ¹ This shows that Cacca was a Rāṣṭrakūṭa. But we do not know how he was related to the previous family. ### [v1.c19.s3.t2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t2.5) ² Edited by D. R. Bhandarkar, \*IA\*, 1911, pp. 174-75. ### [v1.c19.s3.t2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t2.6) 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 ### [v1.c19.s3.t2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t2.7) ³ Edited by the same, \*ibid\*, pp. 175-76. Edited by the same, \*ibid\*, pp. 181-83. ## Linked texts (1) - [Shergaḍh Stone Inscription](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.west.varia.shergadh-stone-inscription) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t2) · Pramāṇa