Question

who was Rashtrakutas?why ot became so powerful.

Answer 1

Rashtrakuta was a royal dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the sixth and 10th centuries


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Answer 2

Many new dynasties established after the seventh century. By the seventh century, there were big landlords or warrior chiefs in different regions of the subcontinent. Existing Kings often acknowledged them as their subordinates or samanthas. They were expected to bring gifts for their Kings or overlords, be present at their courts and provide them with military support. As Samanthas gained power and wealth, they declared themselves to be maha-samantha, Mahamandaleshwara (the great lord of a “circle” or region) and so on. Sometimes they asserted their independence from their overlords.

One such instance was that of Rashtrakutas in the Deccan. Initially they were subordinate to the Chalukyas of Karnataka. In the mid eighth century, Dantidurga, a Rashtrakuta chief, overthrew his Chalukyan overlord and performed a ritual called hiranya-garbha (literally, the golden womb). When this ritual was performed with the help of Brahmanas, it was thought to lead to the “rebirth” of the sacrificer as a Kshatriya, even if he was not by birth.

Dantidurga overthrew Chalukyan Kirthivarman II and went on to build an empire with the Gulbarga region in modern Karnataka as its base. The clan came to be known as Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta, rising to power in 753. At the same time, the Pala dynasty of Bengal and the Pratihara dynasty of Malwa were gaining power force in eastern an northwestern India respectively. An Arabic text, Sisilat Al - Tawarikh (851), called the Rashtrakutas one of the four principal empires of the world.

The period, between the eighth and the tenth centuries, saw a tripartite struggle for the resources of the rich Gangetic plains, each of theese three empires ( Rashtrakutas, the Pala and the Pratihaara) annexing the seat the seat of power at Kannauj for short period of time. At their peak Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta ruled a vast empire stretching from the Ganges River and Yamuna River doab in the north to the Cape Comarin (Kanyakumari) in the south, a fruitful time of political expansion, architectural achievements and famous literary contributions. The early kings of this dynasty were influenced by the Hinduism and the later kings by Jainism.

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