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CHRONOLOGY OF GUJARAT
794 Nāgārjuna, pupil of Bappabhatti Sūri belonged to village Dhankapuri
(Dhānka), which is near Dhankagiri, 30 miles N. W. from Junagadh and six miles from the station of Pānoli.-(Vide JTSS, Vol. I, Pt. I, p. 131). The two rasakuppis prepared by this Nāgārjuna, were kept in Dhankagiri.-( JPI, Pt. I, p. 336). Dhanka and four other kūļas (summits) had, as stated in Vividhatīrthakalpa (I, v. 9 & 10), rasa-kupis, mines of jewels, and various sorts of medi
cinal herbs. C. 794 The Raştrakūta king Govinda III, ( Prabhūtavarşa I, Jagattunga I, Vallabha
narendra, son and successor of Dhruva) attacked the Gurjara king; and some time before 812 A. D. conquered the province of Lāța (Central and Southern Gujarat), which he made over to his brother Indra, who founded there the Second Branch of the Rāştrakūța dynasty of Gujarat. Mālava next submitted to him, and advancing to the Vindhyas, he received the submission of a king,
Māraśarva.-(IA. vi., 59 ff; Rādhanpur Copper-plate, S. 794 A. D.). 794 The Rāştrakūta king Govindarāja III (Jagat-tunga I) was reigning (794
813), in succession to his father Dhruvarāja. He defeated a league of twelve princes, reduced the Gurjaras, and also the provinces of Lāța (Central and
Southern Gujarat) and Mālava. C. 800 Carakasamhitā, while speaking on the adverse effects of the excessive use
of salt, enumerates the people of Saurāṣtra, along with those of Valhika and Sindhu-sauvira, as taking salt even with milk. This medical treatise has been placed in and or 3rd Century B. C. by Dr. P. C. Roy; Dr. Keith, however, places it in the 8th Century A.D.-( Vimāna-sthāna, I, 21 ).
It is said in Carakasamhitā of the people of Aśmaka and Avanti, that the oil and ghee are wholesome to them.-(Cf. 373 tafutat a TF 4148 ya 1)
(Cikitsasthāna XXX-300). C. 794-814 The Saindhava king Rāņaka, son and successor of Agguka I, seems to have
reigned circa G.E. 475-495.-(A. S. Altekar, EI., XXVI, 192). 800 Kalla, described as a great king (Mahāmahāpati), founded a Cālukya
dynasty in Saurāṣtra.-(EI., IX, 2 ff.). C. 800 The Rāstrakūța king Govindarāja III, successor of Dhruvarāja, vanquished
king Dharmapāla of Gauda as well as King Nāgabhata II of Mālava, who had conquered Turuşka, Ānarta, Mālava etc.-(A. S. Altekar, The Rastrakūtas, 64 ff.). He passed the rainy season at Sribhavana (Sarbhon near Amod), and entrusted the territory of Lāța to his younger brother, Indrarāja, who became
the founder of the Gujarat Branch' of the Rășțrakūtas.-(Ibid, 68 ff.). C. 800 The Gujarat Branch of the Rāştrakūtas commences with Indra II who was
the younger brother of Govinda III, who had put Indra in complete charge of
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