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as is known the earliest of the Nanded Gurjaras was Dadda who is estimated to have flourished about A.D. 580 (T. 331). The latest is Jayabhata whose copperplate bears date A.D. 734-5 (T. 486); so that the Gurjara and Chalukya kingdoms flourished almost at the same time. It is possible that the power of the earlier Gurjara kings spread as far south as Broach and even up to Konkan limits. It was apparently checked, however, during the reign of his brother Vikramāditya, Jayasimha having pushed into South Gujarat, driving the Gurjaras north of the Tapti and compelling them to the Broach district; the Gurjaras either acknowledging Chalukya sovereignty or withstanding the Chalukyas and retaining their small territory in the Broach district by the help of the Valabhis with whom they were in alliance. In either case the Chalukya power seems to have hemmed in the Broach Gurjaras, as Jayasimhavarmman had a son Buddhavarmman ruling in Kaira. A copperplate of Buddhavarmman’s son Vijayarāja found in Kaira is granted from Vijayapura identified with Bijāpur near Navsāri, but probably some place further south, as the grant is made to Brahmans of Jambusar. Five copperplates remain of this branch of the Chalukyas, the Navsāri grant of Śryāśraya Śilāditya Yuvarāja dated A.D. 669-70 (T. 421); the Surat grant of the same Śilāditya dated A.D. 671-2 (T. 443); the Balsār grant of Vinayāditya Mangalarāja dated A.D. 731 (Saka 653) (T. 490); the Kaira grant of Vijayarāja dated Samvat 394; and the undated Nirpan grant of Nāgavarddhana Tribhuvanāśraya.