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In addition to the kingdom in Rajputana, there was another principality in the region round Bharukaccha which was ruled over by Gurjara chiefs. The four earliest records of the family, dated between 629 and 641 A.D., were issued by a king named Dadda II Praśāntarāga, son of Vitarăga Jayabhata I, and grandson of Dadda I. It appears from these records that this principality extended from the river Mahi in the north to the Kim in the south, and from the sea-coast in the west to the borders of Malwa and Khandesh on the east. As all the grants were issued from Nāndipuri, that was probably the capital of the family, which has been identified with Nāndod, situated on the Karjan river in the old Rajpipla State.
As Dadda I is expressly said to have been born in the family of the Gurjara kings, and must have flourished in the last quarter of the sixth century A.D., he may reasonably be identified with Dadda, the youngst son of Haricandra, the founder of the main Gurjara family.
In addition to the kingdom of Bharukaccha we hear of another Gurjara kingdom in Malwa, with its capital at Avanti, at a somewhat later date, where the rulers called themselves ' Pratihāras', suggesting their descent from one of the sons of Haricandra.
The inscriptions of the Gurjaras of Broach exultingly mention the fact that Dadda II obtained great glory by protecting (or rescuing ) the lord of Valabhi who had been overpowered by Harşavardhana ( IA, XIII, 77-79). The Lāțas, Mālavas and Gurjaras are referred to as feudatories of Pulakesin in the Aihole Inscription, as they never submitted to Harşavardhana.
The territory over which the Gurjaras of Nāndipuri ruled was included in the dominions of the Kalacuri kings Sankaragaña and Buddharāja. It appears, Dadda I founded a principality somewhere in Southern Rajputana ; and it was only after the collapse of the Kalacuri power that he or his son occupied Broach and the district around it. Possibly the Gurjaras sought the aid of Pulakesin and voluntarily submitted to him in order to over power the Kalacuris. The Nândipuri Gurjaras, Dadda and his successors, are called Sämantas or feudatories, as they owed allegiance either to the main Gurjara ruling family in Rajputana or to the Cälukyas.
II A.D. Traikūțaka Mahārāja Dharasena was succeeded by his son Vyāghrasena.
His coins are almost similar to those issued by his father. In the legend he is
also represented as a Parama-Vaisnava Mahārāja.-( Rapon, B.M.C. 202-3). 478 Ś. 400, 415, 417: Copper-plates from Umetā, Bagumrā and Ilās are
considered to be spurious by some scholars.
Dadda II, Praśāntarāga, Gurjara of Bharukaccha, was the son and successor
of Jayabhat I. c. 480 The kingdom of the Gārulakas seems to have been founded by Śūra I,
shortly after the decline and fall of the Gupta supremacy oyer Saurāșțra. In
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