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CHRONOLOGY OF GUJARAT
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814-880
Mahäsämanta Buddhavarşa of Salukika dynasty, (who was ruling over Siharakkhi-Twelve', received from King Govindarāja, the younger son of Indrarāja of Lāța), issued the grant of village Govațțana situated in Siharakkhitwelve' on the occasion of Vijaya Saptami' in the Saka year 735 Nandana ) Pauşa Suddha 7 (813 A.D.). The grant was received by several Brāhmaṇas of different gotras. It was composed by Kșşņa, son of Nanna.-(Torkhede Plates, EI, III, 53).
Amoghavarşa I was a devout follower of Jainism, and yet he was such an ardent believer in the Hindu goddess Mahālakṣmi, that he actually cut off one of his fingers and offered it to her, being led to believe that an epidemic from which his kingdom was suffering would vanish away by that sacrifice.-( Sanjān Copperplates, EI., XVIII, p. 248; Altekar, The Rāştrakūtas, p. 273).
Part of the donation of Bhadravişņu, given to the Buddhist Vihāra at Kaņ. heri, in the reign of Amoghavarşa I, was for purchasing books. This monastery like the one at Valabhi was obviously maintaining a library, which was very probably required for the school connected with it.-(Altekar, The Răstrakűțas, p. 402; IA, VII, p. 67).
Krşņarāja II, who succeeded his father Rāņaka in cir. G. E. 495, seems to have reigned for a short period of about ten years only.-(A. S. Altekar, EI; XXVI, 193 ).
Nāgabhata II of the Pratihāra dynasty extended his sway over Gujarat, Mālava and Saurāṣtra.--(Munshi, Glory that was Gurjaradeśa, III 62 f.).
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Nagabhaţa, Pratihāra king of Bhinmāl, was reigning in succession to his father Vatsarāja. He conquered Cakrāyudha of Kanauj, and establishad himself in the latter's capital. He was succeeded by his son Rāmabhadra and grandson Bhojadeva I (843 A.D.).
Gūvaka I, of the dynasty of Cahamănas (Cohāņs ) of Śākambhari (Sambhar ) in Rajputana was reigning about this time, apparently as a feudatory of the Pratihāra Nāgabhața.
We notice in the Buchkalā ( Bilara Dist., Jodhpur State) inscription of V.S. 872=815 A.D. (EI, IX, p. 199) in the time of the Paramabhattāraka Mahārājādhirāja Parameśvara Nāgabhața, son of the M.P. Vatsarāja, that some image was set-up after building the temple in the village of Rajyaghangakam-the old name of Buchkalā, in Bhumbhuvāka of the Avāngānāka sept, whose queen Jāyāvati was the grand-daughter of the Pratihāra Bāpuka, and daughter of Jajjaka. It is, thus, clear that Nāgabhața's empire included in 815 A. D. Buchkalā, which is further down Mertā in the Jodhpur State.-(Baij Nath Puri, The History of the Gurjara-Pratihäras, p. 26)
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