explain how the rastarakutas overlapped the chalukya
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Rashtrakutas overthrew the Badami/Vatapi Chalukyas around 753 AD and came to power under a valorous king Dantidurga, who was the father in law of the Pallava king Nandivarman II. Then under successors of Dantidurga like Dhruva Dharavarsha and his son Govinda (II or IV) they became a very powerful empire in what is now Karnataka, the Deccan plateau and Maharashtra with their territories extending up to Ujjain or Avantika. When they extended their empire in the Deccan plateau and moved eastwards towards Kalinga, they came into conflict with the cousins of the Badami Chalukyas, i.e. the Eastern chalukyas, who as it turned out became the longest ruling kingdom in South Central India and Deccan. Their kingdom was founded before 600 AD and they ruled continuously till about 1135 or 1150, after which it got merged into the Chola empire and remained a Chola protectorate till about 1220 AD.
So, with the Rashtrakutas being not only adversaries but vanquishers of the Badami Chalukyas became great adversaries of the Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi and both kingdoms fought several wars. After demise of the Rashtrakutas in 974 AD, the Eastern Chalukyas ruled independently for another 3 decades when they entered into political and marital alliance with the Cholas of Thanjavur, which was not preferred by the Later or Western Chalukyas who had dethroned the Rashtrakutas in Kannada country. So initially what became wars between Western and Eastern Chalukyas between 990–995 AD became cause of full-fledge wars between the Western Chalukyas and the Cholas of Thanjavur/Gangaikonda Cholapuram for a considerable period lasting between 1010 AD from the times of Raja Raja Chola I (with Eastern Chalukyas always being aligned to the Cholas), till about 1135 AD after which the Western Chalukyas became weak and went into oblivion by 1185–90 AD.
So the relationship, by and large between Rashtrakutas and Eastern Chalukyas was quite adversarial and not friendly at all.
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Rashtrakutas overthrew the Badami/Vatapi Chalukyas around 753 AD and came to power under a valorous king Dantidurga, who was the father in law of the Pallava king Nandivarman II. Then under successors of Dantidurga like Dhruva Dharavarsha and his son Govinda (II or IV) they became a very powerful empire in what is now Karnataka, the Deccan plateau and Maharashtra with their territories extending up to Ujjain or Avantika. When they extended their empire in the Deccan plateau and moved eastwards towards Kalinga, they came into conflict with the cousins of the Badami Chalukyas, i.e. the Eastern chalukyas, who as it turned out became the longest ruling kingdom in South Central India and Deccan. Their kingdom was founded before 600 AD and they ruled continuously till about 1135 or 1150, after which it got merged into the Chola empire and remained a Chola protectorate till about 1220 AD.
So, with the Rashtrakutas being not only adversaries but vanquishers of the Badami Chalukyas became great adversaries of the Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi and both kingdoms fought several wars. After demise of the Rashtrakutas in 974 AD, the Eastern Chalukyas ruled independently for another 3 decades when they entered into political and marital alliance with the Cholas of Thanjavur, which was not preferred by the Later or Western Chalukyas who had dethroned the Rashtrakutas in Kannada country. So initially what became wars between Western and Eastern Chalukyas between 990–995 AD became cause of full-fledge wars between the Western Chalukyas and the Cholas of Thanjavur/Gangaikonda Cholapuram for a considerable period lasting between 1010 AD from the times of Raja Raja Chola I (with Eastern Chalukyas always being aligned to the Cholas), till about 1135 AD after which the Western Chalukyas became weak and went into oblivion by 1185–90 AD.
So the relationship, by and large between Rashtrakutas and Eastern Chalukyas was quite adversarial and not friendly at all.