The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.15

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The Kalachuryas carried the *suvarṇa-vṛishabha-dhvaja* or banner of a golden bull, and were heralded in public by the sounds of the *ḍamaru*ka or double-drum shaped like an hour-glass. Their *lâñchhana* or crest is not specifically mentioned in their records: it might be inferred to be the bull, which appears on the seals of the Kokatnûr and Bêhaṭṭi grants: but, if so, it would furnish a departure from the more usual custom, according to which the devices of the crest and the banner were different, and the crest was used on seals and coins; and it seems more likely that we have here, in one or two other cases of this later period, an exceptional use of the device of the banner, instead of the crest, on the seals of the charters.⁴ The formal preambles of their records always style them "lord of Kâlañjara, the best of towns."⁵ This place is the modern Kâlañjar or Kâliñjar,—a town, with a well-known hill-fort, in the Bânda District, Bundêlkhaṇḍ, in the North-West Provinces; *i.e.* in the heart of the ancient Kalachuri territory. And, from this hereditary title, as well as from the mention of Kâlañjara and the Dâhala country in the account given in the Harihar inscription, it is plain that, whether with or without good cause, the members of this family claimed some connection with the Kalachuri or Haihaya kings of Central India, of whom mention has already been made in connection with some of the Western Chalukya, Râshṭrakûṭa, and Western Châlukya kings.⁶ But the actual point of contact is nowhere disclosed. And, as in the case of the forms Chalukya and