Journal of the Gujarat Research Society January 1952

To this we should have to reckon the headless Siva idoll° and the Indranii° in the Himatnagar Museum but also the treatment of the dresses of the crowned Siva2° and of the Parvati. [...] X. of this Journal (October 1948) set forth the historical data contained in the description of Camatkarapur and its environs contained in the Nagarakhanda of the Skanda Purana and made some concluding remarks as to the vicissitudes through which the said city had passed during the Vedic and Epic ages and the probable date of the composition of the said work. [...] Moreover referring at several places to the data contained in the Matsya Visnu Vayu and Bhagavata Puranas and quoting occasionally the original texts contained therein he has tried to show that the history of the period of ascendancy of the Vakataka dynasty as gathered from the inscritions coins and relics is in accord with the names of the dynasties and the periods of their ascendancy give [...] He was no doubt the founder of the new dynasty of the Sena kings of Anarta because besides officiating as Indra the king of the gods he had :acted as the person specially interested in the performance of the sacrifice at the proper time by bringing forward an Abhira girl to be qualified for officiating as the wife of the chief priest Brahma in the absence of his formerly wedded wife -on being [...] Such being the result of my investigation I once more impress upon the people of Gujarat to realise the necessity of prevailing upon the Governments of the Bombay and Saurastra States to undertake an archaeological survey of the portion of the states commencing from the foot of the Acalevara Arbuda and"SENA KINGS OF ANARTA IN THEIR HISTORICAL SETTING 15 Ariisuri hills near Mt.