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Introduction
Cix would support the opinion of the B. G.; for Panchāsara is on the border of Kachchha, Kāthiawad, and Gujarāta. This would mean that the Chāvadās were rulers in northern Gujarat up to the year 739 A. D. and that for some reason, not known to us, they had changed their capital from Bhinnamāla to Panchāsara. After that time, they might have been deprived of their power by Pratihāras who must have given them a severe defeat at Panchāsara slaying their king in battle. This event must have driven the Chavadas to become outlaws against the Pratihāras who though, at that time were rulers at Bhinnamāla, became soon after emperors at Kányakubja, and were, therefore, taken in later tradition, as the kings of Kanyakubja. The Chāvadas avenged themselves by robbing and killing the officers of the reigning king and when they had sufficient means founded a kingdom with Anahilavāda as its capital. If we accept the traditional date of V. S. 752=A. D. 696 for the birth of Vanarāja, his age would be about 43 years when this event might have taken place. According to the chronology of the P. C. he founded Anahilavāda in the V. S. year 802=A. D. 746. But if we do not accept the rather unusually long age of 109 years given to him by the P. C. and suppose him to be born in the year V. S. 796 = 740 A. D. in a forest, he would be about 66 years old at the time of his death in the year V. S. 862 = A. D. 806. But even if we accept the traditional chronology, there is nothing unusual in supposing that after his father was slain in battle, say in the year 740. A. D. he might have lived as an outlaw against the new power for
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