Sambodhi 1994 Vol 19

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 80

H. G. SHASTRI
SAMBODHI a pontif of the Pāśupata sect. He has also fixed the exact chronological system of the Valabhi Era as well as the definite date of the fall of Valablī.
The power of the Chāvadā dynasty at Anhilwad Patan is now found to be very limited in space and time. It is now realised that the traditional dates of the birth and coronation of Vanarāja Chāvadā are to be placed about 100 years later if the contemporary kings of Kanauj are to be identified on the basis of comparative chronology. (Dr.) Smt. Malati K. Bhatt has made a critical study of the post-Maitraka history of entire Gujarat and got hier doctorate on it. The Chinchani Plates of Rashtrakūtas, discovered in 1955, have revealed tliat tlie advent of the Parsis to Sanjan must now be dated 716 A.D. rather than 936 A.D. Jadi Rana wlio welcomed thein is, therefore, to be identified with the contemporary Yadava king rather than King Vajjada of the silāhāra dynasty.
The history of the Chavadā, Solanki and Vāghelā dynasties was treated critically by Shri D.K. Shastri in liis 'Gujarat-no Madlyakālīna Räjpūta Itihāsa', the revised and enlarged edition of which was published in 1953. Here the author has given a plausible explanation for the south-ward extension of the naine Gurjaradeśa to the region known as Gujarat subsequently. Dr. A.K. Majmudar depicted the history of the Chaulukyas of Gujarat critically (1955). The author has dwelt upon the fall of the Vāghelä dynasty in detail and established that the Khalji ariny invaded Gujarat once in 1299 A.D. and again in 1304 A.D. He has also discussed the historicity of the traditional accounts pertaining to Minister Madhava and Princess Devaladevă. The history of Gujarat during the Solanki (or Caulukya) Period was also presented by Dr. N.A. Acharya in 1973. He had also made an exhaustive study of the Vāglielā sub-period for his doctorate in 1965. As pointed out by him tlie Väghelā dynasty was simply another lineage of Caulukya or Solanki dynasty. The extension of the Caulukya kingdom marks the end of the Ancient Period in the history of Gujarat.
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In 1960 the M.S. University of Baroda published 'Chronology of Gujarat, enumerating all important historical and cultural events clironologically from earliest times to 942 A.D. The subsequent volume covering the Caulukya Period is unfortunately left unpublished.
An up-to-date account of the political and cultural history of Gujarat from earliest times upto the end the Caululaya Period was prepared by this author (H.G. Shastri) in an outline and published by Gujarat University in 1964. This author delivered three lectures on the 'Sources of Ancient History of Gujarat', in South Gujarat University in 1977. They were published by Gujarat Itilas Parishad in 1978.