The Early History of the Deccan (Parts I–XI) v1.c10.10

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At the time of the rise of Dantidurga the family had domiciled itself in Mahārāṣṭra for four generations. Dantidurga had become a Mahārāṣṭrian by *c.* A.D. 750; for we find him proudly stating in his records how he had routed out the Karṇātaka armies of the Chālukya emperor Kirttivarman II.² When, however, the Karṇātak country was annexed to the Rāṣṭrakūṭa empire in *c.* A.D. 760 and the capital was shifted to Malkhed, which was situated in that province, the Rāṣṭrakūṭa emperors once more assumed the Karṇātak culture and way of life. Their sign manuals begin to appear in the Canarese script and one of them, Amoghavarsha I, wrote a work in Canarese wherein he shows his bias for the chaste Kannaḍa language then current between Muduvolal and Kupanagar.