The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c33.9

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¹ Except as otherwise stated, this chapter is based upon the second editions of Fleet's 'Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts' and R. G. Bhandarkar's 'Early History of the Dekkan', in *Bombay Gazetteer* (1896), vol. i, part ii. Full references to original documents will be found in both works. Kielhorn's 'Supplement to the List of Inscriptions of Southern India' (*Ep. Ind.*, vol. viii, App. ii) gives the most trustworthy dynastic lists and the results of epigraphic studies, up to Jan. 1906. The names of Pulakēśin and many other persons mentioned have numerous variants or equivalents. The spelling Pulakēśin is now generally approved. The name occurs in a Chāpa genealogy, which is the only instance known to Fleet of its occurrence outside the Chalukya family. This fact supports Jackson's view that the Solankīs or Chalukyas were connected with the Gurjaras, of whom the Chāpas were a branch (*Bomb. Gaz.* (1896), vol. i, part i, pp. 127 note 2, 138, 463 note 2, 467). See *ante*, pp. 339, 340.