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Introduction
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in ruins in the village Siva in Jodhpura state we learn that the village Siva which was in the Dendvāņaka district of Gurjaratrābhūmi (Gurjarat land or Gurjaraland) was given in gift. A stone - inscription of the ninth century A. D. discovered at Kalinjare mentions a village named Mangalānaka which is also a village in the Jodhpura state as situated in Gurjaratră-mandala. Two inscriptions of V. S. 918 ( =862 A. D.) discovered from the village of Ghatiale in the Jodhpura state - one in Sanskrta and the other in Prakrta - mention Gurjaratrā and Gujjarattā respectively.
All these pieces of evidence, though fragmentary, make it probable that the dominion of the Gurjaras was extensive. If the Gurjara kingdom of Bharucha may be regarded as the remnant of a Gurjara empire one may say that the Gurjaras might have spread upto Narmadā in the south. The northern limit would be the eastern part of Jodhpura state.*
Now we have to face the questions who were the Gurjaras, when did they occupy Bhinnamāla, and when did they spread over the whole province which was named after them.
The earliest reference to the Gurjaras as yet discovered in Samskệta literature is to be found in the Harshacharita of Bāņa a protège of Sri Harsha. There we find that Prabhākaravardhana the father of Sri Harsha is called Gurjara - prajāgara, that is, according to the commentary Samketa 'one who deprived the Gurjaras of their sleep,' or it may mean, 'une who was wakeful,
* See Pandit Gaurishankar Oza's Rajputānekā Itihäsa part I. pp. 130-133 and also his articles in the Nagarī Prachá. ripī Patrikā New series Vol. III pp. 341-46.
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