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storming Kiraj, Junaid sent his officers against Marvad, Mandal, Dahanaj and Barūs. He also sent forces against Ujjain, Maliba [ Prof. Hodivala suggests that it may be Baliba-( Valabhi)], and Baharimad, and conquered Bailaiman and Jurz. During one of these raids, his forces must have attacked Valabhi. Jayabhața IV, realizing the common danger, seems to have gone to the help of the king of Valabhi and defeated the Arabs. Now, Junaid was appointed Governor of Sindh by Umar and confirmed by Khalif Hasham (724743 A.D.). As he was succeeded about 726 A.D. by Tamim, the raid of Valabhi can be placed in circa 725 A.D. The contemporary king of Valabhi who was thus saved by Jayabhata IV was probably Siladitya V, who was ruling in G. 403 (722-23 A.D.).
But the Arabs were not completely vanquished. Before long they overran the kingdom of Jayabhața himself, and pressed forward as far as Navasärikā, at which point their further advance was checked by Avanijanäsraya Pulakesin, who inflicted a crushing defeat on them, some time before 740 A.D., the date of his Navsari plates.
Dhiniki grant of Jaikadeva, Paramabhaṭṭāraka and Mahārājādhiraja of Saurastra. Jaikadeva's capital was Bhumilika i.e. Bhumli or Ghumli, the deserted capital of the Jethvas, an ancient Rajput clan, since represented by the former Räpäs of Porbunder (Nov, 16th, Vikrama Sam. 795, Kārtika Vadi 15, 738 A.D.)-(IA, xii, 151 ff.).
(Cedi Sam. 490) Navsari grant, Avanijanāśraya Pulakeśivallabha, Western Călukya. Third Gujarat branch: brother and successor of Mangala. The Tājjkas or 'Arabs, having overrun Sindh, Kaccha, Saurāṣṭra, Cavoṭaka, the Maurya and Gurjara kingdoms, seem to have invaded the Navsari district, and to have been defeated by Pulakesin.-( Navsari grant).
The Navsari plates of Avanijanäśraya Pulakeŝin record his grant of a village in the ahara and visaya of Karmaneya (modern Kamrej, ro miles north-east of Surat). They are dated in K. 490 (739 A.D.).
Their historical importance lies in the graphic account they furnish of Pulakesin's victory over the Tajjikas or Arabs. The Arabs, we are told, had already conquered the Saindhava, Kacchella, Saurāṣṭra, Cavoṭaka, Maurya, Gurjara and other kings before they invaded the district of Navasarīkā in the course of their campaign to conquer all the kings of the Dakṣinapatha. We find this description fully corroborated by the account of Mahomedan chroniclers.
The Gurjara kingdom was, thereafter, probably annexed by the Gujarat Calukyas, after whose overthrow by the Raṣṭrakūta prince Dañtidurga, the country to the north of the Kim was occupied by a feudatory Cahamana family with its capital at Bharukaccha.
These plates are the last record of the Gurjaras dated in the Kalacuri era.
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