INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The founder of the Rashtrakuta power was Dantivarman or Dantidurga. Dantidurga involved all domains between the Godavari and Vima. The domain reached out from Malwa in western India to Kanchi in the southeast. It is the correct option.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dantidurga was a Rashtrakuta leader who decided that he wanted to be more than a Samanta, and overthrew the Chalukyas. He established himself as the ruler of the deccan region of the Chalukyas, after performing a ritual called the Hiranyagarbha.

Detailed explanation-3: -The last ruler Keerthivarman II of Chalukya dynasty was defeated by the Rashtrakuta King Dantidurga in 753 AD. Dantidurga established the Rashtrakuta dynasty that ruled the Deccan and neighbouring areas of India till 975 CE. The early kings of this dynasty were influenced by Hinduism and the later kings by Jainism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dantidurga’s successor Krishna I brought major portions of present-day Karnataka and Konkan under his control. During the rule of Dhruva Dharavarsha who took control in 780, the kingdom expanded into an empire that encompassed all of the territory between the Kaveri River and Central India.