History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c14.s6.27

v1.c14.s6.27

We now come to the history of the Chālukyas of Bādāmi. How the Sātavāhana rule came to an end we do not know. By the usual decrepitude which, from history, overtakes every royal family after two or three hundred years, these Sātavāhanas from the 1st century B. C. to the end of the 2nd century A. D. flourished at Paithana and then declined. Before 500 A. D. i. e. during a period of 300 years we do not definitely know what happened in Mahā- rāshtra. Dr. Bhandarkar has held that there must have been petty Marātha kingdoms among whom the Rāshtrakūta family was one. Of this family we shall speak later on.