Note 2 — ARAB REFERENCES.1

Appendix V. Arab References, a.d. 851–1350. Arab References, a.d. 851–1350.The earliest Arab reference to Gujarát is by the merchant Sulaimán2 a.d. 851 (a.h. 237). Other Arab accounts follow up to a.d. 1263, a period of over four centuries. Sulaimán describes Jurz or Gujarát as bordering on the kingdom of the Balhára (a.d. 743–974) and as forming a tongue of land, rich in horses and camels and said to have “mines of gold and silver, exchanges being carried on by means of these metals in dust.”