The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.45

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Chalukyas are represented as belonging to the Mânavya gôtra or clan,¹ and as being Hâritîputras, or descendants of an original ancestress of the Hârita gôtra.² Again like the Kadambas, they claim a certain connection with Kârttikêya, the god of war, and his foster-mothers, the Pleiades. And the usual complete description of them may be best illustrated by quoting the preamble of the Haidarâbâd grant of Pulikêśin II., of A. D. 612, which, with only a few unimportant verbal differences, was followed in all the later formal records: it speaks³ of "the family of the Chalukyas, who are glorious; who are of the Mânavya gôtra, which is praised throughout the whole world; who are Hâritîputras; who have been nourished by the Seven Mothers who are the seven mothers of mankind;⁴ who have acquired an uninterrupted continuity of prosperity through the favour and protection of Kârttikêya; and who have had all kings made subject to them at the sight of the boar-crest which they acquired through the favour of the divine Nârâyaṇa (Vishṇu)." This quotation illustrates the preamble of