The Rashtrakuta Dynasty ruled from the eighth to the tenth centuries.
The Achalpur dynasty was a Central Indian dynasty with its
main region in Maharashtra and its capital at the Maharashtrian city of
Achalpur.
The Rashtrakutas were formerly vassals of the Chalukya
dynasty, but they destroyed them in the middle of the ninth century and were
the most powerful force south of the Vindhya Mountains until the eleventh
century.
The dynasty dominated much of modern-day Maharashtra and
Karnataka, as well as sections of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, but it also
held vassal kingdoms throughout the Deccan plateau, southern India, and Ceylon.
Their dominion ended in 973, when the succeeding Chalukya
dynasty overthrew them.
The Kailasanatha temple at Ellora, Maharashtra, is the
Rashtrakutas' most famous structure, having been finished in the late eighth
century.
