State · 753 – 982

Rashtrakuta Empire

A state of 753 – 982 — 229 years in South Asia. It replaced Gupta Empire and Chalukya dynasty. It was replaced by Western Chalukya Empire. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

Wikidata's English label: Rashtrakuta dynasty.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 229 years; 753 – 982
Rulers: 4; the Rashtrakuta emperor
Most ground: 1.15 million km²; in 788

Map: Rashtrakuta Empire in 788, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Rashtrakuta Empire in 788, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.15 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Rashtrakuta Empire in 788, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Rashtrakuta Empire in 980, last mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Gupta Empire · replaces · 320 – 550
Chalukya dynasty · replaces · 543 – 753

After it

Western Chalukya Empire · replaced by · 973 – 1189

Rulers

The line of Rashtrakuta emperor.

died in officeending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Dantidurga	735 – 756	21 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Govinda II	774 – 780	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Siyaka	940 – 948	8 years	ending not on record
Indra IV	973 – 982	9 years	ending not on record

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 735 – 982. Median reign 8.5 years. 0 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

737,000 km² in 763, 22,600 km² in 982; at its largest 1.07 million km² in 833. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood229 years
stood longer than 66% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,147,600 km²
held more ground at its peak than 86% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median9 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 31% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 730 – 1005, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 788, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q856691 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.