Nrupatunga is the son of Govinda -III. He was corronated when he was only 14 years old. He ruled for more than sixty years. He himself was a great scholar and he had Shrivijaya, another scholar in his court.
Nrupatunga was much interested in the welfare of his subjects. He built Manyaketa city [Present Malakheda of Kalaburagi district] and this became the capital of Rashtrakutas. A traveler from Arabia, Sulaiman has described that Rashtrakuta Empire was one of the four large empires of the world. (The remaining are Roman, Arab and Chinese empires).
