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Rashtrakuta dynasty

Rashtrakuta (IAST: rāṣṭrakūṭa) was a royal dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the sixth and 10th centuries. The earliest known Rashtrakuta inscription is a 7th-century copper plate grant detailing their rule from Manapura, a city in Central or West India. Other ruling Rashtrakuta clans from the same period mentioned in inscriptions were the kings of Achalapur and the rulers of Kannauj. Several controversies exist regarding the origin of these early Rashtrakutas, their native homeland and their language.

The Elichpur clan was a feudatory of the Badami Chalukyas, and during the rule of Dantidurga, it overthrew Chalukya Kirtivarman II and went on to build an empire with the Gulbarga region in modern Karnataka as its base. This clan came to be known as the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta, rising to power in South India in 753 AD. At the same time the Pala dynasty of Bengal and the Prathihara dynasty of Malwa were gaining force in eastern and northwestern India respectively. An Arabic text, Silsilat al-Tawarikh (851), called the Rashtrakutas one of the four principal empires of the world.

This period, between the eighth and the 10th centuries, saw a tripartite struggle for the resources of the rich Gangetic plains, each of these three empires annexing the seat of power at Kannauj for short periods of time. At their peak the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta ruled a vast empire stretching from the Ganges River and Yamuna River doab in the north to 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 Hinduism and the later kings by Jainism.

During their rule, Jain mathematicians and scholars contributed important works in Kannada and Sanskrit. Amoghavarsha I, the most famous king of this dynasty wrote Kavirajamarga, a landmark literary work in the Kannada language. Architecture reached a milestone in the Dravidian style, the finest example of which is seen in the Kailasanatha Temple at Ellora in modern Maharashtra. Other important contributions are the Kashivishvanatha temple and the Jain Narayana temple at Pattadakal in modern Karnataka, both of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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So I was bored and decided to search a name that had 1 sentence in my history book ( that was amoghavarsha) and i was surprised by the fact people didnt know about him. I want to do more digging but have no clue where other than wikipedia and quora and i am not sure about the authentic. Could someone recommended a site or book or perhaps talk about it? Thank you very much. Starter info: Rashtrakuta dynasty was massive for an empire of its period and is known for its love of kannada. Its most famous ruler amoghavarsha has been called the ashoka of the south. The empire stretched from central india to south india covering modern day states such as maharashtra, karanataka, andhra pradesh, etc.

In the 769 and 867 start dates, the kingdom of Maharastra in South India is ruled by the Rashtrakuta dynasty. This was a pretty powerful and famous Kannada dynasty that even has its own Wikipedia page. In 1066 however, the Rashtrakuta dynasty had been displaced by the Kalyani Chalukya and has no more living members.

There does, however, exist a dynasty named Rashtakuta that rules the duchy of Kanyakubja in North India. At first, I thought that this was just a coincidence that they shared the same name, but they also have the same coat of arms! Then I thought that somehow, the displaced Rashtrakuta dynasty must have migrated to North India and taken power. Yet when I checked the 1066 dynasty's history, it only began to exist from a count born in 980. And when checking the history of the kingdom of Maharastra to find the 769/867 dynasty, it says that it had no living members left.

So what gives? I couldn't even find a Wikipedia entry about the 1066 dynasty as all the results were about the 769/867 one. Also, the 769/867 dynasty was also Kannada and Dravidian while the 1066 dynasty is Hindustani and Indo-Aryan so they aren't even racially (probably the wrong terminology) related. I could understand if two dynasties share the same name, but then why do they have identical coat of arm? Is it a bug?

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Myth: Vikramaditya never existed, he’s just a legendary ruler based on Chandragupta II; there is no epigraphy or coinage issued by him, and he is not mentioned in the dynastic histories (vamsanucharita) of the Puranas.

Overcorrection: Vikramaditya not only existed, but became a world-emperor, ruling over the Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Western China.

Truth: The Malavas of Ujjain won at least a defensive war against the Scythians c. 57 BC, possibly causing the destabilization of Scythian power back at Taxila. The Malava chief responsible for this feat may well have been named Vikrama.

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The Maurya-Gupta interregnum (180 BC – 250 AD), in particular the period 57 BC – 78 AD, was a giant mess when it comes to the history of North-Western India.

South India under the Satavahanas and North India under the Shungas and successive Magadhan dynasties prospered in this period under relatively stable Vedic governance. In the North-West, however, the situation could only be described as political chaos.

There is already confusion about the political history in the period of Greco-Bactrian invasions before 57 BC [1], and during the period of Scythian invasions, sovereignty was fuzzy and fluctuating, borders were non-constant or even ill-defined, and the chronology is highly uncertain. It would perhaps be most accurate to refer to the period as a complex multipartite war between the Greco-Bactrians, Scythians, Parthians, Yuezhi and local and imperial Indic states.

In the midst of all this chaos, there is one name that shines most brightly: Vikramaditya of Ujjain – who, as per traditional record, emerged victorious over the invaders and established a glorious golden age of prosperity and governance in accordance with Vedic laws. His victory over the Scythians c. 57 BC marks the epoch of the Vikrama Samvat, the traditional Hindu calendar – and his name was immortalized by history as a regal title, equivalent to “Caesar” in Europe or “Alexander” in Persia.

The purpose of this text is to reconstruct a precise history of the period between 57 BC – 78 AD based on the primary sources available to us.

If you’re unfamiliar with the historical context, read the background chapters first.

Table of contents

• Historicity of Vikramaditya
• Reconstructing the period 57 BC – 78 AD
• Aftermath: 78 – 250
• Background: start of the barbarian invasions
• Background: 180 – 57 BC

Historicity of Vikramaditya

The most inform

A brief walkthrough of Indian political history, focusing on the actually important things rather than just the stuff there are more tertiary sources on/that historians care more about.

Table of Contents

1. Prologue: the thousand-year recession
2. Early Iron Age (1200 BC – 750 BC)
3. Middle Iron Age (750 BC – 493 BC)
4. Late Iron Age (492 BC – 323 BC)
5. Classical Age: First Golden Age (322 BC – 269 BC)
6. Classical Age: Civil War period (268 BC – 181 BC)
7. Classical Age: Invasions period (180 BC – 249 AD)
8. Classical Age: Second Golden Age (250 – 543)
9. Classical Age: Intermediary period (544 – 749)
10. Classical Age: Third Golden Age (750 – 1194)
11. Dark Ages: Muslim period (1195 – 1669)
12. Dark Ages: Reconquest period (1670 – 1756)

Prologue: the thousand-year recession

The political system of Bronze Age India was probably a plutocracy.

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In its peak, the Indus Valley civilization was the source of various technological innovations particularly in the fields of agriculture, water management, infrastructure and measurement. As the Indus Valley script remains undeciphered and very little of its writing remains, it is harder to comment on its academic achievements, most of these are first known from Mesopotamia (Egypt is a somewhat overrated Bronze Age civilization – it showed very little urbanization and was also a late adopter of the wheel; it just has an impressive archaeological record because of its palace economy).

In 1900 BC, a global depression struck. Indian cities crumbled; Near Eastern cities turned into stagnant palace economies; almost no inventions date to this period.

And then in 1200 BC, civilization collapsed.

It was the most mysterious event: Cities throughout the world burned and perished, literacy vanished, disease and local violence became widespread – civilization, from Greece to Gujarat, just collapsed.

Many historians posit pseudo-explanations for the Late Bronze Age collapse, like climate change, or “General Systems Collapse”, but none of these “explanations” are really good as scientific theories. Folks of the time were as confused by the event as we are – a letter from the Syrian king Ammurapi to the king of Cyprus reads:

>My father, behold, the enemy's ships came (here); my cities(?) were burned, and they did evil things in my country. Does not my father know that all my troops

Surely Emperor Harsha deserves more than the 10 lines that he currently gets in our history textbook.[PART-1]

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The Pala dynasty

This dynasty was founded by Gopala in Bengal in the year 705 AD. This guy was not your run-of-the-mill type of tyrant that were prevalent those days.

Gopala was DEMOCRATICALLY elected by the people of his kingdom. He was the FIRST EVER democratically elected ruler in South Asia, perhaps even Asia and even the world. Giving people right to elect the ruler wasn’t the most fashionable thing those days you know!!!!

Legend goes that people of Bengal at that time were sick of repeated invasions, pillaging and general anarchy. So they got Gopala, the most powerful military dude in their kingdom, anointed him as their king. And boy did he rule! He and his successors ruled for the next 400 years. Yes… 4 centuries in all!

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This was their empire at the peak of their power. Purely in terms of square kilometers, it exceeds even the Mughal Empire at its peak. Go figure….

Pala’s other achievements again had something to do with the Nalanda university. In those days, what would a king do if he captured a territory? His intentions would most probably be to rape, loot, pillage, plunder, destroy and disfigure, not necessarily in that order. And what did King Dhanapal do when he captured Nalanda? He adopted it and took it to even greater heights. And then figured one university was probably not enough. So he established the Vikaramashila University as well. These two universities are even today universally acknowledged to be the greatest universities ever in Indian History. One flourished under the Palas, and the other was established by them. And as a footnote, the entire region of Tibet adopted Buddhism because of this guy’s efforts. So the Dalai Lama, in some way, has to thank the Palas for his influence today.

So ruling almost the entire Indian Sub-continent (From Afghanistan to Myanmar), establishing not one but two of the greatest Universities of those times guarantees  you a place in the annals of history as a magnificent king. But then the Palas did not stop at that. They then went on to bui

Do your worst!

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

It has been argued for a long time that Indian civ should be split because Indian subcontinent has a too complex history to be oversimplified as 1 single civ. Also current civ is mostly about northern Muslim part of Indian history. Many solutions have been debated, but people seem to only fully agree about including Tamils as a distinct civ.

The main difficulty is that Indian dynasties were often multi ethnic, only lasted for several centuries before another kingdom emerged with a different ruling ethnicity. As a general rule, a Dynasty should not be considered as a civ, and it's complicated to find the right names to cover several dynasties.

However, I would like to make following proposal. It is a mix of "regular" civs and "umbrellish" ones (but much less so than current "Indians"). I think it works pretty well to represent most eras of Indian history during AoE2 timeframe, when there were about 3-4 major powers at a single time.

So the civs could be :

- Tamils : covers various tamils dynasties, especially Pandyans, Kalabhra, Cholas, Pallavas (at least partially) etc...

- "Deccanese" : (EDIT : see below) semi-umbrellish name for southern india, excluding tamils (extreme south). I'm fully aware that the name is imperfect, but it has the advantage of covering many dynasties who had different languages and cultures (Deccan being on the boundary between indo-european and dravidian domains) but were based on a similar geographical area. What isn't that bad is that there was usually one major power in the region at a single time : Vakatakas, Chalyukas, Rashtrakutas, again Chalyukas and finally Vijayanagara Empire.

Still the naming feels a bit weird. Maybe "Chalukyas" could fit instead (given the ability from this dynasty to re-emerge under several instances), maybe with an UT named after Rashtrakutas or something like this. But it would be a more restrictive definition. Deccan technically includes part of Tamil domain, but "Deccanese" points more toward inland, meanwhile Tamils were more of a naval power.

If anyone has a better name to suggest, it could help.

EDIT : Kannadigas or Kannadas seem to fit about as well. See my new post below.

- Bengalis : obviously covers Bengalis dynasties (Pala, Sena, Bengal sultanate...). Has a well known name and a mostly distinct history so it would be a good candidate.

- Hindustanis (renaming of current "Indians") : covers most of northern India, except for Bengal area. Mostly based

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Myth: Vikramaditya never existed, he’s just a legendary ruler based on Chandragupta II; there is no epigraphy or coinage issued by him, and he is not mentioned in the dynastic histories (vamsanucharita) of the Puranas.

Overcorrection: Vikramaditya not only existed, but became a world-emperor, ruling over the Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Western China.

Truth: The Malavas of Ujjain won at least a defensive war against the Scythians c. 57 BC, possibly causing the destabilization of Scythian power back at Taxila. The Malava chief responsible for this feat may well have been named Vikrama.

***

The Maurya-Gupta interregnum (180 BC – 250 AD), in particular the period 57 BC – 78 AD, was a giant mess when it comes to the history of North-Western India.

South India under the Satavahanas and North India under the Shungas and successive Magadhan dynasties prospered in this period under relatively stable Vedic governance. In the North-West, however, the situation could only be described as political chaos.

There is already confusion about the political history in the period of Greco-Bactrian invasions before 57 BC [1], and during the period of Scythian invasions, sovereignty was fuzzy and fluctuating, borders were non-constant or even ill-defined, and the chronology is highly uncertain. It would perhaps be most accurate to refer to the period as a complex multipartite war between the Greco-Bactrians, Scythians, Parthians, Yuezhi and local and imperial Indic states.

In the midst of all this chaos, there is one name that shines most brightly: Vikramaditya of Ujjain – who, as per traditional record, emerged victorious over the invaders and established a glorious golden age of prosperity and governance in accordance with Vedic laws. His victory over the Scythians c. 57 BC marks the epoch of the Vikrama Samvat, the traditional Hindu calendar – and his name was immortalized by history as a regal title, equivalent to “Caesar” in Europe or “Alexander” in Persia.

The purpose of this text is to reconstruct a precise history of the period between 57 BC – 78 AD based on the primary sources available to us.

If you’re unfamiliar with the historical context, read the background chapters first.

Table of contents

• Historicity of Vikramaditya
• Reconstructing the period 57 BC – 78 AD
• Aftermath: 78 – 250
• Background: start of the barbarian invasions
• Background: 180 – 57 BC

Historicity of Vikramaditya

The most inform