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Journal of the Gujarat Research Society October 1948

1948

I. Introductory remarks The author of Part I of Volume I of the 1Bombay Gazetteer entitled History of Gujarat has stated' that Anarta was one of the three ancient sub-divisions of Gujarat and taken note of a popular legend that the town of Vadanagar in North Gujarat had been given the name of Camatkarapur in the Satyayuga Anartapur in the Treta and A. nandapur in the Dvdpara and that Vadanagar w [...] A glance at the map of the Bombay Province shows that very likely it must have been of the shape of a triangle bounded at the apex on the North by the Acalesvara hill on the east by the river Sarasvati on the south by the sea (now the Run oi Kutch) and on the West by the river Sabhramati While determining the possibility or othewise of a city of that size we should bear in mind that the area [...] It cannot be the Kampilya which accoring to Cunningham was the capital of South Pancala and stood on the site of the present Kampil in the Farukabad district of the United Provinces.12 In the list of kings of South Pailcala there is one Prthu occupying the 80th position amongst the descendants of Manu Vaivasvata13. [...] On a comparison of the contents of the two groups of chapters mentioned in Section II above it appears that the reputation of HatakeSvara-Ksetra had become greatly enhanced during the interval between the composition of the 1st Khaticla of the original Skanciapural!.a which chapters 1 to 154 of this work reproduce substantially and without adultration and that of the 6th Khaiida of the said P [...] The second class of works deal with the general history of the dynasty from the period of Muzaffar I to the conquest of Gujarat by Akbar in 980 A. H.(1572-73 A. D. ). Of these the most famous are the Mir'ai-Sikandari Mirat-i-Ahmadi and the Arabic history of Gujarat by Hajji Dabir.
history
Pages
79
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120044
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii C.N. Vakil, H.D. Sankalia, R.G. Gyani view
Editorial Note
225-226 P.C. Divanji view
Camatkarapur and the Kings of Pre-Historic Anarta
227-239 P.C. Divanji view
Cultural and Literary Activities under the Sultans of Gujarat
240-257 M.I. Dar view
Inter-Relation of the Adhyayas of the Gita
258-269 P.M. Modi view
On Etymology of “Jauhar”
270-272 Bhogila Sandesara view
The Saindhava Dynasty of Bhutambilika
273-283 Harilal Mankad view
Alexander and the Guptas
284-285 D.R. Mankad view
Reviews
286-292 unknown view
Acknowledgments
293-293 unknown view
Backmatter
i-viii unknown view

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