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the early Chāḷukyas mention it? Why should this most glorious achievement of Jayasiṁha have been suppressed in all the early Chāḷukya records? The later Chāḷukyas could not conceal the fact that their ancestors had once been overthrown by the Rāṣṭrakūṭas. In order to magnify their importance, they invented a tradition that Jayasiṁha, the founder of the early Chāḷukya family, had defeated a Rāṣṭrakūṭa king Indra, a feat actually performed by Tailapa, the founder of the new Chāḷukya dynasty centuries later.