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EPIGRAPHIA JAINICA : 83 from social relationship by marriage that such a tradition regarding personal namey could develop. During the time of Keyura varsha, the Kalachuris are said in this inscription to have contracted marriages with the Chalukyas, the descendants of Bharadwaja.' The Chalukya queen of the Kalachuriya chief · Keyuravarsha was an ardent devotee of Siva. Of the marriages between Rāshtrakūtas and Kalachuris
in historic times, Cunningham gives the follow*ing references :
(1) In' one Rāshtrakūta inscription
Krishna Raja is said to have marred Mahādēvi, the daughter
of K. Kokalla, Raja of Chēdi. (2) In another R. K. inscription King
Jagatrudra, son of Krishna, is stated to have married the two daughters of Sankaragana, Raja
of Chēdi and son of Kokalla I. (3) In a third Răshtrakūta inscription
Indra Raja is said to have married Divijāmba, the great-grand
daughter of Kokalla I. (4) Amõghavarsha, the Rāshtrakūta
Raja, who was himself the great-grandson of Kokalla I, through his mother Govindāmba, married the princess Kandakadēvi,
Are the Chalukyas, then, a branch of the Pallavas who affiliate themselves to the Bharadwaja gotra? Could they
have concealed this identity owing to clannist conflicts ? Such things do occur even to-day in Hindu society.
