rashtrakutas in A Sentence

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    The activity in general, and particularly the embellishments, however, continued till the times of the Rashtrakutas in the eighth- ninth centuries AD.

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    The importance of the Rashtrakutas during this era is indicated by the fact that a Muslim traveler wrote of the king as being one of the four great rulers of the world- the others being the caliph(ruler of the Muslims) and the emperors of Byzantium and China.

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    It developed more vigorously particularly under the Rashtrakutas as could be seen from their enormous output and such large- scale compositions as the caves at Elephanta, Dhumarlena and Jogeshvari, not to speak of the monolithic carvings of the Kailasa temple, and the Jain Chota Kailasa and the Jain chaumukh in the Indra Sabha complex.

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    But what is more interesting from the constructional point of view is the fact that the walls, though of usual thickness, are built of smaller blocks of stone, a tendency to approximate to brickwork, in contrast to the large- sized blocks used in the earlier cyclopean or near- cyclopean constructions of the Chalukyas and the Rashtrakutas.

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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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