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CHRONOLOGY OF GUJARAT
Adityabhogika, who was the Sandhivigrahika also.-(A. S. Gadre: Important Sanskrit Inscriptions, Baroda State, 1943, p. 4-6).
Kalacuri King Sankaragana issued a grant of land in the Bhogasardhana Visaya, which may have been another name of the ancient Govardhana (Nasik Dist.), from his victorious camp at Ujjayini.-( Abhona Plates, EI., IX, 297 f. ). It indicates his military expedition across Avanti in Cedi Sam. 347, Sravana. su. 15 (596 A.D.).
The earliest dated record of the Kalacuris is Sankaragana's Abhona grant' of C. 347 (596-97 A.D.) of a land, in a village in the northern part of the Hyderabad State, which was issued from his camp at Ujjayini. It also shows that he ruled over a vast empire which extended from Malwa in the north to Maharastra in the South. That it comprised Gujarat is shown by the Sankheda plate of the General Säntilla, which mentions Nirihullaka as his governor in Central Gujarat. Sankaragana is assigned approximately to the period 575-600 A.D., as his son Buddharaja was defeated by Mangalaraja in circa 601 A.D.
Sāntilla, the baladhikrita (Minister for the Army) of Nirihullaka, the head of the Bhogikas and the great lord of Palla (Pala) issued a grant of land at Parṇākā (Paniu) situated in Tandulapadraka (Tandalajā), to Anantasvamin. of Kautsa gotra, resident of Paśanihrada. Nirihullaka owed allegiance to Sankargana, son of Krsparāja. The grant was issued from the victorious camp at Nirgundipadraka. The date of the grant is missing on the plates, the lower corners of which are broken and lost.-( Sankheda Plates: EI, II, 21).
Dadda I of the Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty founded a new Kingdom at Nandipuri (Nandod) in South Gujarat. He is probably to be identified with Dadda, son of Haricandra of the Pratihara dynasty of Gurjaradeśa. In the edicts of Dadda II he is styledSamanta and represented as holding sway over the Reva (Narmada) river and the Vindhya Valley. He was a devotee of the Sun-god.-H. G. Shastri, MG, 273 ff.).
Bhanusakti, of the Sendraka dynasty ruling in the neighbourhood of Bagumra (Southern Gujarat), lived about 600 A.D. He was followed by his son Adityasakti and his son Nikumbhallaśakti (A.D. 654). This dynasty seems to have been at first feudatories of the Kalacuris, and later, of the Western Calukyas.
Dandin says that the Apabhramsa is, in poetry, an appellation of the speech. of the ābhiras and the like, [आभीरादिगिरः काव्येष्यपभ्रंश इति स्मृतः । ( I.36) ].
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He also speaks of Lați as one of the Prakṛita languages: Cf.
शौरसेनी च गौडी व लाठी चान्या च तादशी । याति प्राकृतमित्येवं व्यवहारेषु सन्निधिम् ॥ (I. 35 )
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