points to the re-establishment of the main Ráshtrakúta power and the disappearance of the Gujarát branch of the Ráshtrakútas. [454] Though no materials remain for fixing how long after A.D. 914 Gujarát belonged to the Mányakheta Ráshtrakútas, they probably continued to hold it till their destruction in Saka 894 (A.D. 972) by the Western Chálukya king Tailappa. This is the more likely as inscriptions show that till then the neighbours of Gujarát, the North Konkan Siláháras, acknowledged Ráshtrakúta supremacy. It is therefore probable that Gujarát passed to the conquering Tailappa as part of the Ráshtrakúta kingdom. Further, as noted below in Part II. Chapter II., it seems reasonable to suppose that about Saka 900 (A.D. 978) Tailappa entrusted Gujarát to his general Bárappa or Dvárappa, who fought with the Solanki Múlarája of Anahilaváda (A.D. 961-997). [The text does not carry the question of the origin of the Ráshtrakútas beyond the point that, about the middle of the fifth century A.D., two tribes bearing the closely associated names Ráthod and Ratta, the leaders of both of which are known in Sanskrit as Ráshtrakútas, appeared the first in Upper India the second in the Bombay Karnátak, and that the traditions of both tribes seem to show they were either southerners or foreigners Bráhmanised and included under the all-embracing term Rájput. The Sanskrit form Ráshtrakúta may mean either leaders of the Ráshtra tribe or heads of the territorial division named ráshtra. The closely related forms Ráshtrapati and Grámakúta occur (above page 82) in Valabhi inscriptions. And Mr. Fleet (Kánarese Dynasties, 32) notices that Ráshtrakúta is used in the inscriptions of many dynasties as a title equivalent to Ráshtrapati. Such a title might readily become a family name like that of the Sáhi Játs of the Panjáb or the Maráthi surnames Patel, Nadkarni, and Desái. It may be noted that one of the Márwár traditions (Rájputána Gazetteer, III. 246) connects the word Ráthod with Ráshtra country making the original form Ráshtravara or World-blessing and referring to an early tribal guardian Ráshtrasyena or the World-Falcon. It is therefore possible that the origin of both forms of the name, of Ráthod as well as of Ráshtrakúta, is the title ruler of a district. At the same time in the case of the southern Ráshtrakútas the balance of evidence is in support of a tribal origin of the name. The Rattas of Saundatti in Belgaum, apparently with justice, claim descent from the former Ráshtrakúta rulers (Belgaum Gazetteer, 355). Further that the Ráshtrakútas considered themselves to belong to the Ratta tribe is shown by Indra Nityamvarsha (A.D. 914) calling himself Rattakandarpa the Love of the Rattas. The result is thus in agreement with the view accepted in the text that Ráshtrakúta means leaders of the Ratta tribe, the form Ráshtra being perhaps chosen because the leaders held the position of Ráshtrakútas or District Headmen. According to Dr.