rashtrakuta in A Sentence

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    The Pala Empire Rashtrakuta Empire.

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    The Rashtrakuta Empire.

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    The Chalukya- Rashtrakuta lingas are of a different type.

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    This creation of Rashtrakuta Krishna I( 756- 775) is rather unique.

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    These may be placed just about AD 750, in the early years of the Rashtrakuta rule in Ellora.

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    Kanauj was attacked by a Rashtrakuta king, who devastated the city leading to the weakening of the Pratihara Empire.

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    The Arab traveler Sulaiman called the ruler of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty(Amoghavarsha) as"one of the 4 great kings of the world.

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    While the Western Chalukyan linga- pithas are mostly square, the Rashtrakuta linga- pithas, as in Ellora Caves 15 and 16, and the Ganeshlena caves are circular.

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    The doorways of the shrines are simple like those in the southern cave- temples and unlike the Western Chalukyan- Rashtrakuta types with elaborate over- doors.

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    When the South Indian Emperor Govind II of the Rashtrakuta Empire took over Malwa, he established a family of his allies, which was named Parmar.

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    The Brahmanical cave- temples, occupying the central section of the hill and the parts higher up, belong to the period of the Chalukyas and their Rashtrakuta successors.

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    The monolithic Nandi- mandapa in front of Cave 15 at Ellora with an inscription of Rashtrakuta Dantidurga is perhaps a slightly earlier carved- out monolith in this region.

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    The structural creations of the Rashtrakuta period are, however, less pretentious, of medium or small dimensions, and less well- finished as compared with their rock- cut monuments.

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    Rashtrakuta dynasty, was a Kannada Dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the 6th and the 10th centuries and one who built World Heritage center Ellora, Maharashtra.

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    As against these Pallava and Rashtrakuta creations, the contribution by the contemporary Pandyas of the far south to this series is the exquisitely carved Vettuvankovil monolith at Kalugumalai Tirunelveli district.

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    When the south Indian Emperor Govinda III of the Rashtrakuta dynasty annexed Malwa, he set up the family of one of his subordinates there, who took the name of Paramara.

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    According to al-Masudi who visited India at that time, the Rashtrakuta king Balhara or Vallabharaja, was the greatest king of India and most of the Indian rulers accepted his suzerainty and respected his envoys.

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    The Mahesamurti reliefs here are quite different in treatment and finish from the celebrated one at Elephanta and, unlike Elephanta, they are placed on the wall behind the Rashtrakuta linga in the main shrine.

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    In their vast capital of Hampi, now ruined, there are scores of temples, all of hard stone, exhibiting the traits from one of the two sources, the Chalukya- Rashtrakuta- Hoysala- Kakatiya series, and the Pallava- Chola- Pandya series.

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    However, soon afterward he was defeated by the Rashtrakuta king Govinda III(reigned 793- 814), who in turn had to face a confederacy of southern powers that kept him involved in Deccan politics, leaving northern India to the Pratiharas and Palas.

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    The heaviness of the Chalukyan pillars as at Badami is apparently reduced by the flutings and carvings; the pillar and corbel shapes are various, but in their development they retain their individuality till the close of the Chalukyan period and do not recur in the Rashtrakuta creations.

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    In Bhairavakonda, the socket is cut in a sunken recess on the wall over the pedestal to take in the linga, or image. In respect of the cave temples of the Eastern Chalukyas, the absence of Vishnu carvings is notable as against what is found in the Western Chalukyan- Rashtrakuta group.

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    THE CHALUKYA AND Rashtrakuta CAVE- TEMPLES OF THE DECCAN The Chalukyas of Badami from the middle of the sixth century AD and the Rashtrakutas of Manyakheta who supplanted them effectively in the middle of the eighth century, together with the Eastern Chalukyas of Vengi have left a number of cave- temples in the region between the Tapti and the north Pennar rivers, extending from coast to coast.

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    The latter category is also to be found in the Rashtrakuta caves along with a relapse to the admixture of Vaishnavite carvings, though to a lesser extent. While the Western Chalukyan sculpture is noted for clarity in form, pose and expression, the Rashtrakuta phase is characterized by crowded ornamentation with less emphasis on pose and expression and, what is more, a tendency to depict Puranic episodes, either in a synoptic or narrative form.

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