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EPIGRAPHIA JAINICA. 79 immigration from Ayodhya. Possibly this Ayodhya tradition must have been appropriated by the Chalukyas from the Satavahanas, as the Māňavyasa gotra tradition vas adopted from the Kadambas."
Thirdly, the name Chulika, Chalukya or Chālukya is suggested to be a Sanscritised form of some South Indian vernacular name.
Fourthly, it remains to be seen whether •there is any present-day Rajaput family in the North which traces descent from the Chalukyas as there are families tracing their descent from the Satavahanas.
These considerations, among others, throw a strong suspicion against the hypothesis of a North Indian..origin for the Chalukya family. The literary movement that the dynasty patronised from time to time seems to strengthen this bias. Culturally, therefore, the significance of the Chalukyas seems to be in their use of their political sovereignty for the strengthening of South Indian culture with North Indian elements and the re-shaping of North Indian culture in the light and after the methods of South Indian culture. Thus under the Chālukyas, South Indian culture came to its own, while under the previous imperial dynasty of the Satavahanas, North Indian culture absorbed into it the elements of South Indian culture. The transition from the Satavahana type of cultural fusion to one with a South Indian basis and in a South Indian atmosphere was effected by the
