Book Title: Chronology of Gujarat
Author(s): M R Majumdar
Publisher: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

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________________ 721 722 722 724 C. 725 189 MAITRAKA-GURJARA PERIOD Prof. S. H. Hodiwala (Studies in Parsi History, 1920) suggests that the figure for the year is really 992, the figures 9 and 7 being written very much alike, and the details of the date given, fit in with the Samvat year 992. So the date of the first Pärsi settlement in India (at Sanjän) may, therefore, be provisionally fixed at Samvat 992 (= 936 A.D.). From the victorious camp at Kheṭaka, P.M.P. Siladitya IV issued the grant of the village Antarapallika to Bhatta Vasudevabhuti of Gárgya gotra, who had emigrated from Vardhamâna Bhukti and settled at Liptikhanda. The village was situated near Dinnäputra in Sauråstra. The Dütaka of the grant was prince Śladitya. The grant was composed by Balädhikrita Gillaka, son of Buddhabhata and issued in the (Valabhi) year 403, Magha ba. 12 (721 A.D.). -(Gondal Plates, JBBRAS, XI, 335). The grant of the village Kandhajja near Uasingha in Saurāṣṭra was issued by P. M. P. Siladitya IV on Vaisakha suddha 13. (Valabhi) year 403, (722 A.D.). The donee, the dutaka and the lekhaka are the same as those mentioned in the grant issued a few months earlier in the month of Magha by this king. The king was still encamped at Khetaka.-(Gondal plates: JBBRAS, XI, 335). Rastrakāta king Indraraja, son of Kakkarāja, carried off the Calukya princess Bhavanågå from Kheṭaka-mandapa and married her under Raksasa form of marriage (EI, XVIII, 243. ff. IA, 112 ff. and EI, XIV, 121 ff.). This Khetaka is generally identified with Kheṭaka (Kheda) in Central Gujarat (A.S. Altekar, The Rastrahatas, 31); but it is hardly possible to conceive that a Calukya royal family had settled at Khetaka at this time, as it was still under the Maitrakas. Mandapa' may probably be Mandala', and Khetaka Mandala should be better looked for in the Deccan, the home of the Calukyas. -(H. G. Shastri's paper on The Rise of the Rastrakala Rule in Gujarat, XVIIth Indian History Congress). (H. 106) Junaid ibn Abdu-r-Rahman of al Marri, who had succeeded. Amru in the command of the Indian frontier under Umar', governor of Iraq', and was confirmed by the Khalifah Hasim, sent expeditions against Broach, Ujjain and other places,-(EHI, i, 441) and attacked Kaccha from Sindh. (Syed S. Nadvi, op. cit. p. 15). Vakpati wrote probably about 750 A.D., the Gauda-vaho, a poem commemorative of the exploits of his patron Yasovarman of Kanauj, a contemporary of Lalitäditya-Muktápida of Kashmir.-(726-760 A.D.). The poet Bhavabhati, is stated by Rajatarangini to have been patronized by Yasovarman. He, must, therefore, have been a contemporary of Vakpati's, though possibly a generation older.-(See 690 A.D.). Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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