The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.50

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grant of A. D. 739, of Avanijanâśraya-Pulikêśin of Gujarât (Proceedings of the Âryan Section of the Seventh International Congress of Orientalists, p. 232, and Plate), we have the very exceptional form 'Chalukki.' Whether this stands for 'Chalukika,' as given by Pandit Bhagwanlal Indraji in his reading of the text, or whether 'Chalukya' was intended, or whether it is a real variant of the name, it is difficult to say.—The form 'Châlukya,' with the long vowel â in the first syllable, which was used by Taila II. and his successors, does not occur in any genuine document of the early period. It is used, with also the Drâviḍian ḷ in the second syllable, in the Lakshmêshwar inscription, dated in the second year of Vikramâditya II., of A.D. 735 (Ind. Ant. Vol. VII, p. 106, text line 64; and also in line 52, in another division of the record). But, however admissible this record may be, as a copy, for general purposes, it was not put on the stone till after A. D. 967, and it furnishes no criterion in a detail such as the present one.—The forms 'Chalikya' and 'Chalukya' were perhaps evolved from 'Chalkya,' by the insertion of pronunciative vowels.