  ==Rashtrakuta kings could not be Abhira== The word Rashtrakuta means Chief of the Rashtra. Here, the Rashtra could mean nation but in reality means the Rashtra or Rashtri people in this context. It is a different fact that finally they ended up not only as chiefs of a particular tribe but also chiefs of multiple nations. That is precisely the reason Arabs called them one of the four principal empires in the world. This Rashtri complex needs to be well understood for someone to get a good grip over the Rashtrakuta ancestry. The Rashtra or Rashtri upon ap-bhramsa becomes Ratta or Rathi. This same northern rendition becomes Raddi in the south. So, what needs to be understood here is that these Rathi/Raddi/Reddy were a nation-wide farming community in history. Reddy is still the same in Andhra and the Rathis are still represented by the Marathis in Maharashtra region but up north, most of the Rathis in Rajasthan and Haryana are now either Maheswaris or Jats. But originally, these Jats of the northern plains and Rajasthan were also a part of this same Rathi/Raddi complex.   The biggest clue is that in the foothills of Himachal even today, the Rathis are the lower social status kinsfolk of Thakurs and they are the ones who wield the yoke or the plough. It was the same Kshatriya caste that was known by two different epithets, Rashtrakuta or chiefs of the Rashtras and Gurjar Pratihar or protectors of the Gurjaras. The name of this Kshatriya tribe that largely disappeared from multiple parts of the country after the Turkic invasion is Ror.