[The Name Chaulukya.] According to the Vichárasreni after the Chávadás, in A.D. 961 (Vaishakh Suddha 1017), began the reign of Múlarája the son of a daughter of the last Chávadá ruler. The name Chaulukya is a Sanskritised form, through an earlier form Chálukya, of the old names Chalkya, Chalikya, Chirîkya, Chálukya of the great Dakhan dynasty (A.D. 552-973), made to harmonise with the Puránic-looking story that the founder of the dynasty sprang from the palm or chuluka of Brahma. The form Chaulukya seems to have been confined to authors and writers. It was used by the great Dakhan poet Bilhana (c. 1050 A.D.) and by the Anahilaváda chroniclers. In Gujarát the popular form of the word seems to have been Solaki or Solanki (a dialectic variant of Chalukya), a name till lately used by Gujarát bards. The sameness of name seems to show the Dakhan and Gujarát dynasties to be branches of one stock. No materials are available to trace the original seat of the family or to show when and whence they came to Gujarát. The balance of probability is, as Dr. Bühler holds, that Múlarája's ancestors came from the north. [516] [Múlarája, A.D. 961-996.] The Sukritasankírtana says that the last Chávadá king Bhúbhata was succeeded by his sister's son Múlarája. Of the family or country of Múlarája's father no details are given. The Prabandhachintámani calls Múlarája the sister's son of Sámantasimha and gives the following details. In A.D. 930 of the family of Bhuiyada (who destroyed Jayasekhara) were three brothers Ráji, Bija, and Dandaka, who stopped at Anahilaváda on their way back from a pilgrimage to Somanátha in the guise of Kárpatika or Kápdi beggars. The three brothers attended a cavalry parade held by king Sámantasimha. An objection taken by Ráji to some of the cavalry movements pleased Sámantasimha, who, taking him to be the scion of some noble family, gave him his sister Líládeví in marriage. Líládeví died pregnant and the child, which was taken alive from its dead mother's womb was called Múlarája, because the operation was performed when the Múla constellation was in power. Múlarája grew into an able and popular prince and helped to extend the kingdom of his maternal uncle. In a fit of intoxication Sámantasimha ordered Múlarája to be placed on the throne. He afterwards cancelled the grant. But Múlarája contended that a king once installed could not be degraded. He collected troops defeated and slew his uncle and succeeded to the throne in A.D. 942 (S. 998). The main facts of this tale, that Múlarája's father was one Ráji of the Chálukya family, that his mother was a Chávadá. princess, and that he came to the Chávadá throne by killing his maternal uncle, appear to be true. That Múlarája's father's name was Ráji is proved by Dr. Bühler's copperplate of Múlarája. [517] Merutunga's details that Ráji came in disguise to Anahilaváda, took the fancy of Sámantasimha, and received his sister in marriage seem fictions in the style common