The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s15.22

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¹ The only instances, that I can quote, in which ‘Kalachuri’ occurs in one of the formal preambles in prose, are in line 39 f. of the Harihar inscription, mentioned above, where we have Kalachuri-kula-kamala-mārtaṇḍa, instead of the customary Kalachurya, etc., and in the same expression in the Kukkaṇūr inscription of A. D. 1178. In metrical passages, the form occurs constantly; e.g., as ‘Kalachuri,’ in line 11 of the Harihar record,—in a variety of places in the Kukkaṇūr record,—in lines 5 and 10 of the Aṇṇigere inscription of A. D. 1184-85 which records the establishment of the power of Sōmēśvara IV. by the Daṇḍanāyaka Brahma (Carn.-Dēśa Inscrs. Vol. II. p. 37; see page 464 above, note 3),—and in line 29. of the Hoysaḷa inscription of A. D. 1192 at Gadag (Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 29);—and as ‘Kalachuri,’ in lines 3, 4 of the Kokaṭnūr grant, and line 6 of the Bēhaṭṭi grant (here, Nāgarī characters were used; and this accounts for the different l: but ‘Kalachurya’ would have suited the metre, just as well as ‘Kalachuri’).—The transcripts in Carn.-Dēśa Inscrs. usually, if not always, give ‘Kalachuri;’ but I never met with this form in an original record.—Sir Walter Elliot himself used the forms ‘Kalabhuri’ and ‘Kalabhurya’ as much as, if not in preference to, ‘Kalachuri’ and ‘Kalachurya’ (e. g., Jour. R. As. Soc., F. S., Vol. IV. pp. 15, 17, 19, 22, 32; Madras Jour. of Lit. and Science, Vol. VII. pp. 207, 209, 211, 214, 224). But this is simply due to mislection or some other mistake.—I have met with the curious form ‘Kaḷaturya,’ in an inscription of Bijjala, of A. D. 1166, at Maṇakaṭṭi near Shiggaon in the Dhāṭwār District, and in an inscription of his son Sōvidēva, of A. D. 1174, at Huḷgūr in the same neighbourhood (I quote from ink-impressions).