Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India c27.10

c27.10

The Imperial Rāṣṭrakūṭas had their capital at Mānyakheṭa, modern Mālkheḍ in the Gulbarga District of the former Hyderabad State, now in Mysore. But they did not represent themselves as the lord of ‘Mānyakheṭa, the best of cities.’ Like the Raṭṭas of Saundatti, the Imperial Rāṣṭrakūṭas, were sometimes represented as the lords of the city of Lattalūra, Lattalūr or Lattanūr, which was claimed to have been the original home of the family and has been indentified with modern Lātūr in the Osmanabad District of the former Hyderabad State.¹ The representation of Rāṣṭrakūṭa Kṛṣṇa III, who had his capital at Mānyakheṭa,² as the lord of Kandhārapura in the Haṇṇikeri inscription, without reference either to his capital or to the orginal home of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa family, is interesting to note. It appears that Kṛṣṇa III had a secondary capital at Kandhārapura, built by and named after himself or either of his two predecessors who bore the same name.