Mysore and Coorg from the Inscriptions c8.s9.6

c8.s9.6

¹ They are said to have miraculously sprung from the moisture or water in the hollowed palm (chuluka, chulaka) of Hāriti's hand (see Dg 41), or, according to another account, from the libation to the gods poured from his goblet (chulka, chuluka, chaluka) by Hāriti. Dr. Hoernle (JRAS. for 1905, p. 12) says: "Despite the attempted Sanskrit derivation of the genealogists, I would suggest that the name (Chalukya) is not a Sanskritic word at all, but of foreign (Gurjara or Hunic) origin." He adds that it may be from a Turki root, chap, gallop, chāpāul, a plundering raid, a charge of cavalry (?).—Mr. V. A. Smith (EHI. 383) states: "There is some reason for believing that the Chalukyas or Solankis were connected with the Chāpas, and so with the foreign Gurjara tribe of which the Chāpas were a branch."