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How did the Rashtrakutas become powerful?



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Rashtrakutas became powerful in the following manner:

  1. Rashtrakutas were subordinates to the Chalukyas of Karnataka.
  2. In the mid-eighth century Dantidurga, a Rashtrakuta chief, overthrew his Chalukyan overlord.
  3. He performed a ritual called Hiranya-garbha with the help of Brahmanas.
  4. This ritual was, then, considered to lead the rebirth of the sacrificer as Kshatriya, even if he was not Kshatriya by birth.

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