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C. E. Definitely.it set out in the last centuries of B. C. in Tamilnādu, and from the early centuries of C.E. in Karnataka. The early Gangas and their coevals AdiKadambas of Banavāsi, and the Adi-Calukyas of Bādāmi prepared a brawny infrastructure for Nirgrantha creed to take off. Obviously it was left to the Rāştrakūtas to reap a rich harvest and enjoy the fruits of Anēkantamata.
3.8.6.1. The Mauryas, the Sātavāhanas, the Cutus - were all alien to the soil of Karņāțaka. They employed either Prakrit or Sanskrit as their language of administration. Indigenous dynasties like the Gangas, early and later Cālukyas and the Rāstrakūtas employed and encouraged languages of the inhabitants of the region. Adi-Kadambas, though a native family, adopted Prakrit and more prominently Sanskrit as their official language.
3.8.7. A salient feature worth musing is the mutual influence of the Rāstrakūtas and the Gangas. Preponderance of the Rāstrakūtas on the Gangas operated on two levels. One, personal names like Govinda (Govindara, Govindaradeva and its corrupt forms of Goggi, Gojjiga etc) and the biruda like Jayaduttaranga. Secondly, the Gangas started restructuring their old temples and erecting new basadis, using stone instead of wood and brick, with which they were familiar. This shift in the material used, from wood and brick to stone, was because of the weight of the Rāstrakūtas stone structures, in particular Ellōrā. It is possible that the planners and artisans of the major monuments of the Gangas were familiar with the magnificent monuments at Aihole, Pattadakal, Bādāmi and Ellārā (Nagarajaiah, Hampa : 1999-B : 54).
3.8.8. On the other hand, the influence of the Gangas on their superior, the Rāştrakūtas, was in the field of religion and language, in other words Jainism and Kannada. Many of the emperors of the Rāstrakūța royal house faithfully
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