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Chokkhakuţi grant of A.D. 867, and in the Bagumrå plates, of doubtful authenticity, of A.D. 888. And the Kalas inscription of A.D. 930% describes Govinda IV., in a Kanarese verse, as Rashtrakút-êttama, "a best of the Rashtrakūtas." The Waņi plates of A.D. .807 mention the family, in a Sanskrit verso, as fri-Rashtrakdf-dnwaya, "the lineage of the glorious Rashtrakūtas ; " we have the same verse in the Rådhanpur plates of A.D. 808 ; and the inscription of probably the period A.D. 814-15 to 877-78 at the Daśå vatâra cave at Ellora, speaks, in another Sansksit verse, of prakata-Rashfrakút-anvaya, "the manifest, public, or well-known lineage of the Rashtrakûțas." The Baroda plates of A.D. 812 speak, in a Sanskrit verse, of fri-Rashtrakat-amala-vamsa, "the spotless race of the glorious Rashtrakūtas ;" the Dabli plates of A.D. 940, and, following the same draft, the Karhad plates of A.D. 959, again in a Sanskrit verse, speak of Rashfrakúfa-vansa, "the race of the Rashtrakūtas, or of Rashtrakuta," and propose to account for the name by saying that the family derived it from the name of a certain imaginary) Rashtrakuța whom these records put forward as the son of the eponymous Ratta. Finally, the Bagumrå plates of A.D. 915 introduce the family, again in a Sanskřit verse, as fri-Rashtrakúfa-kula, “the family of the glorious Rashtrakūtas; and the same expression Rashtrakafa-kula, "the family of the Rashtrakūtas," is put forward, in ornate prose, in the Kadaba plates, which purport to have been issued in A.D. 813, but which are not of unquestionable authenticity.
In the records of some other early branches of the same general stock, but only distantly connected, if actually connected at all, with the Malkhôd family, we find used only the form Rashtrakūta. Thas, in Sanskrit prose, the Uņţikavâţika grant of Abhimanyu describes his first ancestor Manån ka as Rashfrakúţânan tilaka, "an ornament of the Rashtrakůtag."1 A Sanskrit verse in the Multi plates of A.D. 700 places Durgarkja, the first ancestor of Yuddhasura-Nandarkja, fri-Rashfrakút-anvayê, " in the lineage of the glorious Rashtrakutas." And a Sanskrit verse in the Antrôli-Chhåróli plates of A.D. 757 describes Kakkaraja I., the first ancestor of Kakkarája II., as $ri-Rashfrakúta-kula-parikaja-shanda-súrya, "a sun of the group of water-lilies (blooming in the daytime) which is the family of the glorious Rashtrakūtas."13
In later extraneous records which mention the Malkhêd family, we find the following usage. A Sanskrit verse in an Eastern Chalakya copper-plate record of the period A.D. 918 to 925 describes Vijayaditya II. (A.D. 799 to 843) as fighting during twelve years, by day and by night, a hundred and eight battles with the armies of the Gangas and the Rattas; and a subsequent Sanskrit verse in the same record says that Vijayaditya III. (A.D. 844 to 888), prompted by the lord of the Rattas, conquered the Gangas, and cut off the head of Mangi in battle, and frightened Křishna and Sankila, and completely burnt their city. In the Chola
1 Vol. VI. above, p. 290, text line 86.
Ind. ant. Vol. XIII. p. 67, verse 18. See note 5 on page 215 above.
• Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. p. 158, text line 17. • Vol. VI. above, p. 218, text line 18. • Archæol. Suro. West. Ind. Vol. V. p. 83, text line 3. 1 Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 159, text line 2. • Vol. V. above, p. 193, text lines 11, 12; and Vol. IV. p. 282, text lines 10, 11.
Jour. B. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XVIII. p. 258, B., plate ii. a, text line 1, and p. 262, A., plate i. text line 15.
10 Vol. IV, above, p. 840, text line 6. 11 Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XVI. p. 90, text line 2. 19 Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 234, text lines 1, 2.
11 Jour. Bo. Br. R. 4. Soc. Vol. XVI. p. 107, text lines 2, 3.- I am of opinion, now, that the members of this family did not belong to what can be properly treated as a branch of the Mall hêd family, but were only pashlyas or "kinsmen” of the Rashtrakațas of Malkhed; that is to say, that they belonged to a separate line of the same vanhia or race, stock, or clan. See, also, Vol. VI. above, p. 170.
# South-Ind. Insors. Vol. I. P. 89, text lines 12, 24; and, regarding the second verse, see also Vol. IV. sbore, p. 226.
