Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c10.s2.3

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According to the *Vichāraśreṇi* after the death of the king (Vaisākha Suddha 1017), began the reign of Mūlarāja the son of the daughter of the last Chāvaḍa ruler. The name, Chaulukya, is a Sanskritised form, through an earlier form Chulukya, of the old word Chalkya, Chālikya, Chinkya, Chālinkya of the Deccan dynasty (A.D. 552-573), made to harmonise with the Paurāṇik stories that the founder of the dynasty sprang from the *chuluka* of Brahmā. The form Chālukya seems to have been confined to poets and writers. It was used by the great Deccan king Pulakesin (A.D.) and by the Pāṭanvāḍa chroniclers. In Gujarat, the popular form of the word seems to have been Solanki, a possible variant of Chālukya, a name till lately used by Rajput land-owners. The similarity of names seems to show the Deccan and Gujarat dynasties to be branches of one stock. No materials are available to prove the original seat of the family or to show why and when they came to Gujarat. The balance of probability is that the Solankis and Mūlarāja’s ancestors came from the north.