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82' ANDHKA KARNATA JAINISM. Chalukya times and there are glimpses of it in the Telugu Mahābhārata of Nannaya and the Kumāra Sambhava' of Nanna Choda who seems to have followed the Kannada tradition, and the Dasakumāra Charita of Ketana who seems to have followed the Andhra-Chalukyan tradition of Nannaya.
The Satavahanas, before the Kalachuris, must have attempted a social fusion with dynasties whom they conquered or who were becoming powerful in their time. This they o must have done to safeguard their political power. Evidence of this is found in VishnukundiKadamba-Satakarni who must have been a prince born of the Satakarni and Kadamba union. Similar relations the Satavahanas are said to have contracted with the Pallavas and the Nāgas. This earlier tradition of social fusion for the consolidation of political power must have been followed by the Kalachuris, for their grants indicate such marital relations with the powerful dynasties of the time. A few instances may be noticed in passing. The Bilhari inscription of the Haihalya-Kalachuris of Chēdi is one of their earliest inscriptions which gives the names of Kokalla, Mugdhatunga, Keyuravarsha, etc. Tungå or Varsha occur familiarly in the personal names of the Răshtrakūtas. Whether the latter adopted them from their relations, the Kalachuris, or whether the Kalachuris adopted them from the Răshtrakūtas, is difficult to determine, but it must be
