[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.t3 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c19.s3.t3: (c) The Rāṣṭrakūṭas (Raṭhaḍās) of Bithu The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c19.s3.t3 - **Language:** English ### (c) The Rāṣṭrakūṭas (Raṭhaḍās) of Bithu ### [v1.c19.s3.t3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t3.1) This branch is known from the \*Bithu stone-inscription\* of the Sīhā Raṭhaḍā, engraved on a \*devḷī\* (memorial stone) in Bithu, a village about 14 miles N. W. of Pali, the principal town in the district of the same name in the State of Jodhpur. It contains 7 lines, recording that in (V) S. 1330 the Raṭhaḍā Sīhā, son of Kaṁvara (Kumāra) Srī-Seta, went to the world of gods. ‘ May the bliss of heaven be for Pārvatī, the Solaṅkinī.’⁴ ### [v1.c19.s3.t3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t3.2) Prof. Bhandarkar rightly identified this Sīhā, son of Seta, with Sīyā jī, the son of Setrām, the reported founder of the royal family of Jodhpur. The Rāṭhors of Jodhpur claim descent from the Rāṣṭrakūṭas of Kanauj (\*Kanojīyā-Rāṭhoṛa\*).¹ It is therefore very likely that this family was a branch of the line of Lakhaṇapāla, which, we have seen, ruled in Budaun and Kanauj probably as feudatories of the Gāhaḍavālas.² It may well be that after the destruction of this Rāṣṭrakūṭa line in the 13th century a scion of this family, possibly Seta, migrated to Rajputana and became the founder of the modern Rāṭhoṛs. As usual, the bards, mixing facts with fiction, represented him as connected with Kanauj and the famous Gāhaḍavāla prince Jayaccandra.³ ### [v1.c19.s3.t3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t3.3) ¹ \*AR\*, Vol. I, p. 161; Vol. II, p. 824. ### [v1.c19.s3.t3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t3.4) ² See \*supra\*, pp. 505, 507 and 518. ### [v1.c19.s3.t3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t3.5) ³ Note also the \*Bikaner praśasti of Rāya Siṅgha\* of V.S. 1650, \*JASB\*, Vol. XVI (N.S.), pp. 262 ff.; and the Trisinghari inscription of Dūhaḍa, son of Aśvatthāman (Asothama), and grandson of Sīhā, dated in V.S. 1366. See \*IA\*, 1911, p. 301. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v1.c19.s3.t3) · Pramāṇa