Note 16 — Chapter II · THE CHAULUKYAS OR SOLAṄKIS (a.d. 961–1242)

Another of the deeds preserved in the Forms is a royal copperplate grant by Lavaṇaprasáda or Lávaṇyaprasáda of a village, not named, for the worship of Somanátha. Lavaṇaprasáda is described as the illustrious Ráṇaka,16 the great chief, the local lord or Mandaleśvara, the son of the illustrious Ráṇaka Ánalde born in the illustrious pedigree of the Chaulukya dynasty. The grant is noted as executed in the reign of Bhímadeva II.17 while one Bhábhuya was his great minister. Though Bhímadeva was ruling in a.d. 1232 (Saṃvat 1288) Lavaṇaprasáda apparently had sufficient influence to make grants of villages and otherwise to act as the real ruler of Gujarát. It was apparently immediately after this grant (a.d. 1232?) that Lavaṇaprasáda abdicated in favour of Víradhavala.18