[Early Dynasty, A.D. 450-500.] Of the rise of the Ráshtrakútas no trace remains. The earliest known Ráshtrakúta copperplate is of a king Abhimanyu. This plate is not dated. Still its letters, its style of writing, and its lion seal, older than the Garuda mark which the Ráshtrakútas assumed along with the claim of Yádava descent, leave no doubt that this is the earliest of known Ráshtrakúta plates. Its probable date is about A.D. 450. The plate traces the descent of Abhimanyu through two generations from Mánánka. The details are: Mánánka. | Devarája. | Bhavishya. | Abhimanyu. The grant is dated from Mánapura, perhaps Mánánka's city, probably an older form of Mányakheta the modern Málkhed the capital of the later Ráshtrakútas about sixty miles south-east of Sholápur. These details give fair ground for holding the Mánánkas to be a family of Ráshtrakúta rulers earlier than that which appears in the usual genealogy of the later Ráshtrakúta dynasty (A.D. 500-972). [The Main Dynasty, A.D. 630-972.] The earliest information regarding the later Ráshtrakútas is from a comparatively modern, and therefore not quite trustworthy, Chálukya copperplate of the eleventh century found by Mr. Wathen. This plate states that Jayasimha I. the earliest Chálukya defeated the Ráshtrakúta Indra son of Krishna the lord of 800 elephants. The date of this battle would be about A.D. 500. If historic the reference implies that the Ráshtrakútas were then a well established dynasty. In most of their own plates the genealogy of the Ráshtrakútas begins with Govinda about A.D. 680. But that Govinda was not the founder of the family is shown by Dantidurga's Elura Dasávatára inscription (about A.D. 750) which gives two earlier names Dantivarmman and Indra. The founding of Ráshtrakúta power is therefore of doubtful date. Of the date of its overthrow there is no question. The overthrow came from the hand of the Western Chálukya Tailappa in Saka 894 (A.D. 972) during the reign of the last Ráshtrakúta Kakka III. or Kakkala. [Ráshtrakúta Family Tree, A.D. 630-972.] The following is the Ráshtrakúta family tree: