The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.318

v1.c16.318

² In the text the name is given as बालवलभी (भि) *i c.*, Bāla-Balabhi(bhi). But in his introduction Śāstrī spells the name as Bāla-Valabhī. As the records of this period often confuse between व and ब it is possible that Śāstrī's emendation of the text was justified. बाल has the sense of 'new'; so the principality may be designated 'New-Valabhī.' Is it possible that it was a colony of the people of Valabhī in Kathiawar which was destroyed by the Arabs in the second half of the 8th century A.D.? See *supra*, p. 336, fn. 1.