Note 1 — Chapter II · THE CHAULUKYAS OR SOLAṄKIS (a.d. 961–1242)
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Chapter III. The Vághelás, a.d. 1219–1304 Arṇorája, a.d. 1170–1200. Arṇorája, a.d. 1170–1200.While Bhímadeva II. (a.d. 1179–1242) struggled to maintain his authority in the north, the country between the Sábarmatí and the Narbadá in the south as well as the districts of Dholká and Dhandhuká in the south-west passed to the Vághelás a branch of the Solaṅkis sprung from Ánáka or Arṇorája, the son of the sister of Kumárapála’s (a.d. 1143–1173) mother. In return for services to Kumárapála,1 Ánáka, with the rank of a noble or Sámanta, had received the village of Vyághrapalli or Vághelá, the Tiger’s Lair, about ten miles south-west of Aṇahilaváḍa. It is from this village that the dynasty takes its name of Vághela.