Origin of solanki’s -In many recent sources, Chalukyas or famously Solankis are considered to be Agnivanshis, born from the Agnikund at Abu, by Sage Vashishtha. These thoughts are just following the famous Prithiviraj Raso by Chandbardai. But this fact is purely fiction. There is proof to believe this. Inscriptions of ancient Chalukya kings trace back their origin to Arjun, one of the famous Pandavas. So, they are considered to be purely descendents of the lunar race or Chandravanshis.Arjun was 41th descendent of Lord Visnhu. His 7th descendent was Udayan. Starting from Udayan, 56 kings ruled near the area of Soram. Thus, "nikas" of Chalukyas is considered to be "Soram Ghat".After that, Chalukya was born, from which the clan took its name. Some sources claim that he took this name after worshipping Lord Vishnu on Chalukya mountain. He was married to Rashtrakuta princess, from which manvya was born. In the lineage of Chalukya, Vijayaditya was born who moved to southern India to form new kingdom.Vijayaditya fought with Trilochan Pallav and died. His queen, who was about to birth a child, took shelter in at Vishnubhatt Somayaji in Madivemu village, where Vishnuvardhan was born.Vishnuvardhan worshipped Goddess Gauri, who gave him with the royal insignia of the Chalukyas. Royal insignias - Silver Chattra, Panchamahashabdh Shank, Palidhwaj (Flag), Prati Dhakka (Royal drum), Sign of Varah (which remain the their sign forever), Morchaal, MakarToran, Royal Seat (Sinhasan), Sword of gold.Vishnuvardhan defeated Kadambvanshi Kings and annexed their 7500 villages. His descendents ruled from there, but they were unable to control the kingdom and thus readily declined.After 15 generations of Vishnuvardhan, Jaysingh was born. He defeated Rashtrakuta King Krishna and restablished the honour of Chalukyan Empire.His capital was Badami and his descendents were known as Chalukyas of Badami.His grandson was Pulkeshi-I(553-566 A.D).

Journey from Chalukya to Solanki
Chalukya - the name without which no part of India's ancient history is complete.There are many beliefs regarding the origin of the name "CHALUKYA".One says, it is the name of the warrior who was born from the Agnikund of Abu,and thus his descendent's were called Chalukyas. This beliefs is based on the conceptof Agnikula Rajputs.Second theory, which is also based on fiction as the first one, says that, Lord Brahma has created a warrior by taking Gangajal in his "chuluk" (palm) and ordered him to protectmankind from the "Asurs". Being created from Brahma's chuluk, he was called Chalukya. Most south Indian Kings belonging to Chalukyan family had followed this belief.Another theory which is not much famous, but is believed to be near true says that, in the lineage of Arjun,the famous warrior from Mahabharat, there was a King named Chalukya, and after his name, his descedents were called Chalukyas. This theory gets some support from history of Solankis of Gujarat, which also mentions lunar race of Solankis, descendents of Arjun.Gaurishankar Ojha, most famous historian of Rajputana after Col. James Tod, had written a book "Early history of Solankis". In this book, he had given many accounts of ancient Chalukyan inscriptions which says that Chalukyas are of Lunar race ("Chandra Vanshis").In history of both Chalukya families(South and Gujarat) mentions that their ancestors were ruling in the northern part of India, near Ayodhya and from there they had migrated to South and Central India. Chalukyan King Rajraj's inscription says that "After Udayan, there were 59 Chakravarti Kings in Ayodhya, then King Vijayaditya,of this lineage attacked Southern king Trilochan Pallav. Vijayaditya was killed in the battle, his queen, was given sheltered by a Brahmin, where Vijayaditya's son Vishnuvardhan was born. From Visnhuvardhan, all southern Chalukya kings were descended.History of Gujarat mentions that Raj and Beej, both came from Kalyani. Most historians have mistakenly took this Kalyani as the famous Kalyani, capital of a strong Chalukyan Kingdom in Southern India. Researchers have shown that there exist a place Kalyankataka, mentioned in Prabandchintamani, Ratnamala and many other books, is believed to be in Vindya ranges in Central India. The bard of Roopnagar, the Jagir Solanki Rajputs in Mewar, traces lineage of his masters to the kings, who ruled near banks of Soram river, which is in central India.Inscriptions of Kaluchari Kings of Central India describes that this place was under the supremacy of Chalukyan Kings. Thus, the belief that Chalukya of Gujarat and Southern India, shares a common lineage and both were migrated from North-central India. Though they have got separated many years before, but shares their title.The Chalukya brothers from Kalyankataka, migrated to Gujarat and established a dynasty, which was one of the most powerful and famous dynasty of Indian history. This dynasty had changed the future of Gujarat and its surrounding areas.In the western India, people pronounces "Cha" as "Sa". When the Chalukya Kings migrated to Gujarat, the name Chalukya was pronounced in local language "Salukya, Saluki", and later got changed to Solanki. There are many maratha families in Maharasthra which still have their title as "Saluki or Salunke". In the inscription, which were written in Sanskrit, it was spelled correct "Chalukya", but in local language it got variations and now got a common pronounciation "Solanki". From the period, when the history was started to be written in local languages and the name was written as it was spelled "Solanki".There are some difference in the Southern and Northern Chalukyas, as the gotra of Southern Chalukyas is "Manavya" and of Northern Chalukya is "Bhardwaj". The family insignia is also different. The clan deity is also different, Southern family worhips Lord Vishnu as their clan deity and the Northern family worhsipped Lord Somnath as their clan deity. But these difference occured due to their different ruling areas. Their is a large difference in both the cultures, thus these differences can occur. Besides these differences, both the families share a common thing, a "Shwet Chattra" which is believed to be their ancient insignia. Though, now a days, the trace of southern family is hard to find, but the northern family is still holding much of its patrimony, mostly in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and in Rajasthan, especially in Mewar.

Rajput Clan's Utan (Oldest Place of Family Division)
Historically, there are 36 clans of Rajputs, thus called chattis-kul.Rajputs are known by the place they belong. Some clans even took their names by the place they used to rule, as Sisodiya(from Sisoda), Sonigara Chauhan(from Svarngiri Fort, Jalore) and many others. Rajputs are mostly identified by the place they belond or used to belong or ruled. According to the historical books, Utan of the different Rajput clans are-Dhar,Abu - ParmarJayal - KhichiSambhar,Nadol - ChauhanParbatsar - DahiyaTunk-Toda - SolankiMandore - PariharPatan - ChavdaKannauj - RathoreNarvar - KachhwahaDelhi - TanwarBhatner,Lodurva - BhatiBundi - HadaJalore - Sonigara ChauhanChittor - MoriHalvad-Patdi - JhalaJanglu - SankhlaBandhogarh - BaghelaMerta - Mertiya Rathore.There are many small sub-clans in different Rajput clans which are having their name took from the place they used to rule but it will produce an messed up list here, so are avoided.