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EPIGRAPHIA JAINICA.
by the break-up of the Satavahana power and the conflicts of local dynasties in power and influence, or are they, like the Rashtrakutas, a Deccani clan who emerged into power after the downfall of the Satavahanas? The former hypothesis leads to that of the naturalness of the bias of the family towards a North Indian culture, and equally to that of a natural tendency to patronise attempts to engraft it on a South Indian one; the other hypothesis leads to that of a natural tendency of the family to the strengthening or modification of South Indian culture in an atmosphere of North Indian civilisation.
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The evidence from inscriptions and literature is not uniform as regards the origin of the Chalukyas. The earlier inscriptions do not give the family a puranic genealogy, although they contain elements out of which a puranic genealogy, was 'worked out for the family about the cleventh century A.D. It has been noticed how the style of 'Manavyasa gotra Haritiputra' was adopted from the Kadambas. Yet these sources of information seem to contain darkly a family tradition that the Chalukyas originally hailed from Ayodhya. Pampa's Vikramarjunavijaya, Nannaya's Mahabharata, Bilhana's Vikramankadevacharita and Peddiraja's Kavya-* lankara, among other works composed under the patronage of the later Chalukyas, regard the Chalukya family as immigrants from the North. They also affiliate, them to the lunar race of
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