Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c19.2
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c19.2
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The earliest Arab reference to Gujarát is by the merchant Sulaimán¹ A.D. 851 (A.H. 237).² 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."