The question remains were the southern Rattas or Ráshtrakútas connected with the northern Ráthods or Ráshtrakútas. If so what was the nature of the connection and to what date does it belong. The fact that, while the later southern Ráshtrakútas call themselves Yádavas of the Lunar race, the northerners claim descent either from Kusa the son of Ráma or from Hiranyakasipu would seem to prove no connection did not Abhimanyu's fifth century grant show that in his time the southern Ráshtrakútas had not begun to claim Yádava descent. That the Márwár Ráthods trace their name to the ráht or spine of Indra (Tod's Annals, II. 2), and in a closely similar fashion the Ráth or Rattu Játs of the Sutlej (Ibbetson's 1881 Census, page 236) explain their name as stronghanded, and the Rattas of Bijápur (Bijápur Stat. Account, 145) trace their name to the Kánarese ratta right arm, may imply no closer connection than the common attempt to find a meaning for the name Ratta in a suitable word of similar sound. A legend preserved in the Rájputána Gazetteer (III. 246), but not noted by Tod, tells how Sevji, after (A.D. 1139) the Musalmáns drove his father Jaichand out of Kanauj (Tod's Annals, I. 88) took Khergad from the Gehlots and went to the Karnátak. where the Ráthods had ruled before they came to Kanauj. From the Karnátak Sevji brought the image of the Ráhtod Ráshtrasyena which is now in the temple of Nágána in Mevád. The account quoted in the text from Tod (Annals, I. 88) that the Ráthods who rose to power in Márwár in the thirteenth century belonged to a royal family who had held Kanauj since the fifth century has not stood the test of recent inquiry. It is now known that about A.D. 470 Kanauj was in the hands of the Guptás. That about A.D. 600, according to the contemporary Sríharshacharita it was ruled by the Maukhari Grahavarmán who was put to death by a Málwa chief and was succeeded by Harsha. About A.D. 750, according to the Rájátaranginí, Kanauj was held by Yasovarmán, and, in the next century, as inscriptions prove by the family of Bhoja. It was not till about A.D. 1050 that Kanauj was occupied by the Gáhadavála or Gáharwála family from whom the Ráthods of Márwár claim descent. [456] If the legendary connection of the Márwár Ráthods with Kanauj must be dismissed can the Márwár Ráthods be a branch of the southern Ráshtrakútas who like the Maráthás some 800 years later spread conquering northwards? Such a northern settlement of the southern Ráshtrakútas might be a consequence of the victories of the great Ráshtrakúta Dhruva who according to received opinions about A.D. 790 conquered as far north as Allahábád. It is beyond question that southerners or Karnátas were settled in North India between the seventh and the eleventh centuries. Still the latest information makes it improbable that Dhruva's conquests extended further north than Gujarát. Nor has any special connection been traced between the