The Rashtrakuta Dynasty ruled parts of South India from the 8th to the 10th century CE. At its zenith, their kingdom included the modern state of Karnataka in its entirety along with parts of the current Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Gujarat. Their importance can be gauged from the writings of many Islamic travellers and scholars, especially Al-Masudi and Ibn Khordadbih (10th century CE), who wrote that all the other kings of India at that time prayed to the Rashtrakutas as a higher power and prostrated themselves in reverence before them, such was their influence and impression.
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753Dantidurga defeats the Chalukya king Kirtivarman II and establishes the Rashtrakuta Dynasty.
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756 - c. 773Reign of Krishna I of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty.
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774 - 780Reign of Govinda II of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty.
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780 - 793Reign of Dhruva Dharavarsha of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty.
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793 - 814Reign of Govinda III of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty.
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814 - 878Reign of Amoghavarsha I of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty.
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915 - 928Reign of Indra III of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty.
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c. 916Indra III captures Kannauj.
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939 - 967Reign of Krishna III of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty.
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982Indra IV, the last ruler of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty, takes his own life by performing the Jaina ritual Sallekhana.
