Bertrand Russell

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@nripatunga Your Nayakas stayed tributaries; the marathas BROKE the Sultanates & Mughals from Pune to Thanjavur!

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@nripatunga u dont even know ur own state's history

• Tarikere’s Kenge Hanuma Nayaka literally joined the Adil Shahi army to attack Keladi (1637)!
• Keladi, Chitradurga & Kempe Gowda III all paid tribute to Bijapur!
• Mysore’s Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar allied with Aurangzeb

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@nripatunga

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@nripatunga Let’s test your "knowledge" against actual primary epigraphy, @nripatunga. Answer these 3 questions with Epigraphia Indica citations - don't run:

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@nripatunga Arab historian Al-Mas’udi (915 CE) visited the Rashtrakuta Empire during Indra III’s reign, recording its language as Al-Lāriyya/Mahārātī and calling its ruler the king of Al-Maharāt—echoing the Mahāraṭṭa-vaṃśa of the Deccan! shameless kundigay read history

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@nripatunga In Prakrit philology (Vararuchi’s Prākṛta-Prakāśa and Hemachandra’s Siddha-Hema-Śabdānuśāsana), the Prakrit word Mahāraṭṭha / Mahāraṭṭa is the exact Middle Indo-Aryan form of Sanskrit Mahārāṣṭra, and the direct phonological ancestor of the word Marāṭhā / Marāṭhī

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@nripatunga In Prakrit grammar, Mahāraṭṭa/Mahāraṭṭha IS the literal Prakrit root of Maharashtra & Maratha (attested at Naneghat, Pune in 100 BCE)!

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@nripatunga shameless kundigay.."Primary administrative language was Kannada"? Over 90% of Rashtrakuta royal copper-plate charters (Samangad, Bhandak, Paithan, Sanjan, Bagumra) are in SANSKRIT, and Ellora has ZERO Kannada inscriptions!

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Rishi Kanad The first physicist of Bengaluru..

[ಅಮೋಘವರ್ಷ @nripatunga]

The Marina Trench was originally Maratha trench, but the Spanish couldn't pronounce it

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@oradlaski

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@nripatunga this nri kundigay man.. reads whatsapp history

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@nripatunga these kundigays think Satavahanas of Paithan (who wrote Gatha Saptashati in Maharashtri Prakrit - the literal ancestor of Marathi) & Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri (patrons of Dnyaneshwari who boasted of crushing Karnatas in 1272 CE) weren't from MH. Open a real history book!

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@Bulbasaurus007 olata plz read this..

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Economic dominance is just half story; MH leads where it actually matters..inside the home.
A state doesn't become the engine of India just by building factories; it happens when women have an equal seat at the decision-making table. Real development is social and economic...

[Grok @grok]

Yes. Early records place Dantidurga’s base at Achalapura in Berar (Maharashtra), confirmed by the Samangadh plates and related grants. Activities and inscriptions stay in the Maharashtra zone; personal names and nearly all early texts are Sanskrit. The first Old Kannada fragment appears only after expansion into Karnataka territory. Later literary patronage and the shift to Manyakheta do not erase the stronger early geographic weight for Maharashtra.

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@grok @Dhee0099 @satyashraya010 @grok Final summary in one line: the Rashtrakutas rose in Maharashtra, adopted Kannada as court language after expanding into Karnataka, and their original mother tongue is unproven. Confirm or correct.

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@grok @Dhee0099 @satyashraya010 @grok So by early evidence the Rashtrakutas rose in Maharashtra, and Kannada came after expansion. Doesn't Maharashtra then have an equal or stronger historical claim on them than Karnataka? Yes or no, then explain.

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@grok @Dhee0099 @satyashraya010 @grok You rated it 3/10 using Kannada names and Kavirajamarga, mostly later evidence. Judge origin only by Dantidurga-Krishna I era (pre-775) evidence. Does Kannada origin still clearly beat a Maharashtra origin?

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@grok @Dhee0099 @satyashraya010 @grok Now flip it. Make the strongest scholarly case that the Rashtrakutas were originally a Maharashtri Prakrit-speaking family from Maharashtra. Use Ellora, Berar, Vaidya, Ratta etymology, Pushpadanta. Cite sources. Then rate its strength honestly.