The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.69

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¹ Bilhaṇa, the *Vidyâpati* or Chief Pandit of Vikramâditya VI., gives a somewhat different account, to the following effect (*Vikramâṅkadêvacharita*, i. 31-58; see *Ind. Ant.* Vol. V. p. 317):—On an occasion when Brahman was engaged in his *sandhyâ*-devotions, Indra came to him, to complain of the growing godlessness on earth, and begged him to put an end to it, by creating a hero who would be a terror to the evil-doers. On hearing this request, the Creator directed his looks towards his *chuluka*; and from it there sprang a warrior, fit to protect the three worlds. From him descended the Châlukyas,—a race of heroes, among whom Hârita is reckoned the first progenitor, and one of whom was Mânavya, who humbled the kings of the earth. The original seat of the Châlukyas was Ayôdhyâ.—At Aṇhilwâḍ, in the Gaikwâr’s Dominions, there was a well-known dynasty, the name of which was Chaulukya (*e. g.*, *Ind. Ant.* Vol. XI. pp. 104, 223, 242), or sometimes Chaulukika (*e. g.*, *id.* Vol. VI. p. 192). In connection with it, a similar popular etymology is given in the Surat grant of Trilôchanapâla, dated in A.D. 1051. Thus (*id.* Vol. XII. p. 203), when Brahman was churning the ocean which was his *chuluka* with a mount Mandara (the churning-stick) which was his anxiety that was caused by the trouble given by the demons, there sprang forth a jewel of a king. He asked the god what he might do. The god said “O great king!, O Chaulukya!, marry a daughter of Râshṭrakûṭa at Kanauj, and obtain progeny from her; so that thus there may be a long-continuing race of warriors, born from Chaulukya.”—Some other passages of the same purport, but giving the name of the first king as Chulukya, are quoted and referred to in the same paper.