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VII THE SOLAN (I PERIOD
The period that follows the post-Maitraka period in the history of Gujarat is the Solanki period. The Solanki (Caulukya) kings, including those of the Vāghelā branch, ruled over the region of Gujarat for about three centuries, and a half i. e. from V.S. 998 (A.C. 942) to V.S. 1360 (A.C. 1304)". Mūlarāja I, the first ruler of the Solanki dynasty, gained power by overthrowing the Cāpotkața dynasty. The dynasty founded by him continued to rule in the region of Gujarat upto A.C. 12442. The power of this dynasty then passed to Rāņaka Vīsaladeva, who belonged to the Vāghelā (Vyāghrapalli: ya) branch of the Solanki lineage. His dynastry held sway over Gujarat upto A.C. 13043, when King Karnadeva of this dynasty finally lost all his power to the Khalji sultanate of Delhi.
Dated records of this period have come forth in a large number both from epigraphic and literary sources. The former sources mostly consist of stone inscriptions, stone-pillar inscriptions, copper-plate inscriptions and image inscriptions, while the literary sources abound in Puşpikās and prasastis. The traditional 1. A. K. Majumdar, Cauluk yas of Gujarat, p. 4; R. N. Mehta, "Karņa
Vāghelā : The Last Väghelā King of Gujarat', “Svädhyāy”,
Vol. XIX, pp. 173 ff. 2. Ibid., p. 168; D. K Shastri, Gujaräino Madhyakālın Rājput
Itihäs, pp. 458 f. 3. A. K. Majumdar, ibid., p. 189
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