Hin: करौली karaulī
‘Kali’s City’ [Karoli, Kerowlee].City, District, Rajasthan
From Kali/Kalyan and Skt: puri→-auli, ‘town’, ‘city’.
The surprising corruption of the name [Kalyanpuri →Karauli] is, in fact, quite regular: ‘l’ and ‘r’ are interchangeable , and the ‘p’ elision in ‘puri’ attested in numerous examples elsewhere. Karauli was founded in 1348 by Raja Arjun Pal, a Yaduvanshi Rajput, and named Kalyanpuri after Kali Devi, patron goddess of the Yaduwanshi rulers.
Kailadevi Temple, Karauli Divyendu sharma
