The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.60.1

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appellations the origin of which had been forgotten in the lapse of time and events of which no very accurate memory had been preserved, which refers the origin of the Chalukyas to Ayôdhyâ or Oudh, and allots them to the Sômavamśa, or Lunar Race, in the family of the god Brahman, who sprang from the water-lily that grew from Vishnu's navel. Thus, the Kauthêm grant of Vikramâditya V., of A.D. 1009, tells us that fifty-nine kings of the Châlukya¹ lineage reigned at Ayôdhyâ, and, after them, sixteen more over the dakshinapatha or region of the south, i.e. the Dekkan; that then there was a temporary obscuration of their power; and that eventually it was restored by Jayasimha (I.)² An inscription at Balagâmve, in Mysore, of the time of Jayasimha II., dated in A. D. 1019, states, in the same way, that fifty-nine Châlukya kings reigned at Ayôdhyâ, and subsequently in their lineage there was born Satyâśraya, through whom the family of Brahman came to be called the family of Satyâśraya.³ Another record, apparently of the same reign and dated in A. D. 1025-26, at Kalyân in the Dhârwâr District,⁴ says that the mind-born son of the god Brahman was Svayambhuva-Manu; his son was Mânavya, from whom came all those who belonged to the Mânavya gôtra; Mânavya's son was Harita; his son was Pañchaśikhi-Hâriti; and the son of the latter was Châlukya, from whom sprang the race of the Châlukyas.