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Dantidurga was the founder of the dynasty called Rashtrakutas. His real name was Dantivarman. His capital was at Manyakhet or Malkhed, near modern Sholapur in Maharashtra. He was succeeded by his uncle KrishnaI who extended his kingdom upto Karnataka.

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Kirtivarman II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (272 words)
	Kirtivarman was steadily undermined by the activities of Rashtrakuta Dantidurga who was establishing the Rashtrakuta Empire.
	Dantidurga was a feudatory of the Chalukyas and was beginning to establish an independent kingdom around Ellora.
	Dantidurga managed to wrest control of the northern provinces of the Chalukyan kingdom, he also completely surrounded the Chalukya ini the east and the south by conquering the Telugu provinces, Kalinga and Kosala kingdoms.

OurKarnataka.com: History of Karnataka: The Rashtrakutas (580 words)
	Although a number of early rulers of this family are mentioned in the inscriptions, it was Dantidurga (C. 735 - 756 A.D.) who achieved the Rashtrakuta independence by defeating the Chalukyas.
	According to the Sanjana plates, Dantidurga was the son of the Gujarat Chalukya princess Bhavanaga whom his father Indraja forcibly carried away from her marriage pandal.
	Dantidurga, according to the Samangad plates, defeated the "Karnatakabala" of the Chalukyas and captured Badami.

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