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Rajputs. In this respect these works bear out the evidence of the inscriptions. But this view of the inscriptions and literary works requires to be controlled by some important considerations.
The Rajaputs of North India who do not belong to the recognised vedic or puranic dynasties and gotras generally describe themselves as belonging to the gotra of Manu or Mānavyas. There is a traditior among the Andhra or Deccani Kshatriyas to this day. that North Indian Rajaput clans belonging to five specific gotras (Vasistha, Dhananjaya, Koundinya, Bharadwaja, Kasyapa) originally immigrated to the south ; but the Mānavyasa gotrïs are not mentioned among them. There are no Mānavyasa gotris among Kshatriyas in " the Andhra dlēsa of to-day. One Chēdi inscription, however, refers the Chaluky&s to the Bharadwaja gotra, but the Chalukyas of historic times must have, somehow, forgolten this earlier tradition (see sequel).
Secondly, those Deccani Rajaput clans that claim to have immigrated from Ayodhya describe themselves as belonging to the solar and not the lunar race?; and there is no evidence of a lunar dynasty having, ever before fifth century 4.D., ruled in Ayodhya. Thus the description of the Chalukyas as belonging to the lunar race seems to be inconsistent with the idea of their
TA North Indian clan of Rajaputs of the Ikshválcu race seems to have settled in the
Krishna District in very early times (Iosns. Madras Poy.).
