Note 30 — BHINMÁL.
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The Van-Dindori and Rádhanpur plates of the great Ráshṭrakúṭa Govinda III.30 state that Govinda’s father Dhruva (C. 780–800 a.d.) “quickly caused Vatsarája, intoxicated with the goddess of the sovereignty of Gauḍa that he had acquired with ease, to enter upon the path of misfortune in the centre of Maru” and took away from him the two umbrellas of Gauḍa. A comparison of this statement with that in the Baroda grant of Karka II.31 which is dated a.d. 812–813, to the effect that Karka made his arm “the door-bar of the country of the lord of the Gurjjaras, who had become evilly inflamed by conquering the lord of Gauḍa and the lord of Vanga” makes it highly probable that Vatsarája was king of the Gurjjaras at the end of the eighth century. As no such name occurs in the Chávaḍá lists, it follows that the Gurjjaras referred to in the inscriptions of about a.d. 800 were not Chávaḍás.