Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c17.3

c17.3

¹ Dr Fleet draws a distinction between Chalukya and Châlukya and asserts that "this last form belongs only to the restored dynasty commencing with Taila II" and that "it does not occur in any of the genuine early inscriptions" But it does belong to the earlier dynasty also, and is found in genuine early inscriptions The best way to determine the point whether the first syllable was च or चा is to refer to verses containing the name, the metre of which will show the quantity unmistakably The inscriptions of the earlier dynasty are in prose, we must therefore refer to the versified grants of the Râshṭrakûṭas which speak of the dynasty supplanted by them In the Râdhanpur grant of Govinda III (Ind ant, Vol VI, p 65), we have ख्यातात्तच्चलुक्यकुलादनून &c, in verse 3 In the Navasârî grant edited by me (Jour B B R A S, Vol XVIII, p 257), we have चालुक्यवंशजसखे स्वयमेव लक्ष्मो &c In three of the five grants of the eastern branch of the early dynasty edited by Dr Hultzsch we have चालुक्यानां कुलम् (South Indian Inscriptions, Vol I, pp 44, 47 & 57) The form चल्लुक्य is also frequently used The distinction between च and चा and the difference in sense in consequence of the lengthening of the vowel which Dr Fleet points out have place in the pure Sanskrit of Pâṇini and of the Brâhmaṇas, but there is no room for them in names that came into use in the Prakrit period long after Sanskrit became a dead language Chalukya was some vernacular name which was Sanskritized into the various forms we actually find