History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c16.12

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The translator Stein has, we think, wrongly said in a note here that this queen was a Rāshṭrakūṭa lady. In the Mahārāshtra the Chālukya family was still supreme and the Rāshṭrakūṭas had yet to rise for they came to power after 750 A. D. The Chālukya king was at this time Vijayāditya who may have probably been in prison at this time in Kāñchī (see Chālukya history). The mention of Vindhya passes indicates that Lalitāditya crossed the Eastern Ghauts into Vengi country. These hills have to be crossed whether you come into Vizagapattan from Orissa or from Raipur side. A Ratta Karnata queen would again probably indicate an Eastern Chālukya queen for they were Mahārāshtra by origin and Karnāta by language or in modern language they were Southern Mahratta country people. North and South India appear then as now differentiated in the matter of Pardah and we need not wonder that this Ratta queen presented herself before Lalitaditya and did him homage. She appears to have been a young lady also from Rājatarangiṇi and she must have been so from inscriptions also as she was a step-mother to the last king Jayasiṅha and her child son Kokkili was a half-brother of the former (see S. I. In, Hultzsch Vol. I, p. 41).