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coins. They all belong to Class 1.* The diameter of the coins is about 0.5" or 12 mm. Their weight varies from 25 to 41 grains.-(A. V. Pandya, Annual Report of the Bombay Secretariat Record Office and its Subordinate Offices, for the year 1952-53, p. 17).
* A. V. Pandya notes that the reverse bears the emblem of a Peacock, but the photographs clearly indicate that the emblem is of Garuda, which is the usual emblem of his silver coins in Western India-(H. G. Shastri).
A large series of silver-plated coins with a copper core have been found around the site of the ancient Valabhi. They are a debased issue of the silver coinage probably struck during a period of financial pressure.--(JRAS, 1893, 137 ff.).
They bear no date. The legend on them is परमभागवत राजाधिराज श्री कुमारगुप्त HE SIRETA 1-(Allan, ibid, xcvi, III f.)
Mahārāja Indradatta's reign is known through the coins of his son Dahrasena.-( Rapson, B.M.C. 198, ff.)
He is the earliest known king of the Traikūţaka dynasty. The Traikūtakas seem to have originally belonged to Aparānta. The extension of their power over South Gujarat may be dated in the second quarter of the fifth century.-- (H. G. Shastri, MG, p. 249).
About this time lived Indradatta, of the Traikūtaka dynasty, reigning in Southern Gujarat and the Konkan.
Dadda I was the Gurjara king of Bharukaccha.
The Gurjaras apparently entered Western India from the north, about the first century A.D. They founded two kingdoms--a Northern in the region of Southern Mārvād, the Kiu-chi-lo' of Hiuen Tsang, with its capital Pi-lo-mi-lo i.e. Bhillamāla (Bhinnamāla or Srimāla).
A Southern kingdom was established at Bharukaccha, which included the whole of Central Gujarat and the northern part of Southern Gujarat, i.e. the present Broach District, the Talukas of Olpad, Chorāsi and Bārdoli of the Surat District, as well as the adjoining parts of the Baroda State, of the Revākāņthā and of Sachin ; its boundaries in all probability, being the Mahi river on the North and the Ambikā on the south. The Gurjaras of Broach seem to have been feudatories of some larger power, and may have started as vassals of the Northern kingdom of which they were probably an offshoot.
During the 7th century, Bharukaccha was attacked by the kings of Valabhi on the one hand, and by the Cālukyas of Badami on the other, to the latter of whom a portion of its southern dominions was lost. After being invaded by the Tājikas or Arabs in the 8th century, the Bharukaccha kingdom was finally conquered about 800 A.D. by the Rāştrakūta Govinda III, who made over
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