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Grāharipu : In the time of Mülarāja, Grābaripu was adminstering over Saurāsota?. The ministers of Mūlarāja advised him to attack Grãharipu. In the opinion of Abhayatilakagani, Graharipu indicates a Dhīvara caste and not a proper name. K.A. Forbes3 also supports the above view. But according to col. Tod, Grāharipu is one of the princes of Ujmaeer, who having defated a Mohammadan king was called Sultan Grāha.
Grāharipu is mentioned by the Dvyāśraya as living at Vāmanasthali5 which is indentified as modern Buntullee near Jupāgadh. Coi. Walker in his report of Sorātha gives the following account. “The residence of the Rajah of Soreth was first at Buntulle.6. Hearing that the king of Anhilwar (i. e. Mūlarāja) is approaching he advanced with a large force. Grāharipu collected his army. The kings that adhere to win, whether allies or tributaries, joined his standard ; many forest Bheels were with him, his sons who dwelt on the banks of Bhadur, famous in sorath, came?." J. Burgess and C.M. Duff' have identified him with the Chudasama prince of Girnar (Junāgash). Again Dvyāšraya has mentioned him as an Abhīra king?. This fact is supported by Cousens11 who identifies him as Grahario
1. DV. II.64. 2. ibid. II.63. 3. Forbes, K.A.: Rāsamālā. London, 1876, P.39, f.n. 4. Tod,Col.: Annals of Rajasthan, New York, 1914, II,p.447. 5. DV. I1.65. 6. Forbes,K.A., op.cit.,P.41. 7. ibid.p.43. 8. Burgess, James. Reports on the Antiquity of Kathiawad and Kaccha
(1874-75). A.S.W.I., II., London, 1876,p.164. 9. Duff,C.M. Chronology of India, Westminster, 1899,p.283. 10. DV. II.62. 11. Couseds, H. Somanātha, A.S.I. (Imperial Series), XLV.p.3.
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