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| Chawras | End of Solanki Era | SamantSingh & Mulraj | Yograj | Vanraj Chawda | Jaishikhari | |
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Solanki died without an heir. His brother's son Ajaypal succeeded the
throne. Ajaypal strongly hated Jain religion. Hence he started
harassing Jain sadhus. This made him unpopular among his subjects and
was murdered. After that Mulraj came to the throne. Since Mulraj was
young, Paternal Uncle (kaka) Bhimdev ran the administration on behalf
of the king Bhimdev was very restless and innocent. With such a nature he spend so much of money that state's treasure was almost over. Moreover because of his innocence the administration became weak. All the "samant"(feudatory chief) under him became free and started acting according to their will. Bhimdev was very brave. At that time Shahbuddin Ghori ruled Delhi. Once he attacked Gujarat and Bhimdev bravely defeated him and sent him back to Delhi. After a while, his nephew Mulraj - the real king of Patan, died. Hence now Bhimdev became the king. Mohammed Ghori didn't forget the defeat of Gujarat. He sends Qutubuddin, one of his disciples to attack Gujarat. During his life Bhimdev often fought with Muslims. He was brave but he didn't have the political insight. And because of that he couldn't live peacefully in his whole life. Two years after the death of Bhimdev, Vishaldev, a son of one of his samanth, defeated his son Tribhuvanpal. And ruled the throne. In this way Solanki era started by Mulraj with the death of Samanthsingh - the last ruler of Chawda dynasty, came to an end. |
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- Translated from gujarati by Mrs.
Vaishali Nagoree | |
