The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c34.s3.3

v2.c34.s3.3

The last prince of Khera, Mohadāsa, was killed by Siājī, grandson of the Rathoda ‘Jayacandra’ of Kanauj. Sejakjī,¹ Mohadāsa’s grandson, then migrated to Saurāṣṭra about 1250 V. S. with his followers, and entered the services of the Soraṭh king Mahipāla, whose capital was at Junagarh. He obtained 12 villages around Sāpur, and from his progeny were descended the Guhilas of Kathiawar and the neighbourhood.² Recently Ojha has advanced the theory that Sālivāhana, the ancestor of Sejakjī, was really the prince of that name in the Medapāṭa branch of the Guhilas, who was the predecessor of Saktikumāra (977 A. D.).³ He is of opinion that the person who really migrated from Khera in Jodhpur was Sahajiga who is mentioned in the Mangrol stone-inscription of the Guhila Ṭhakkura Mūlaka. This record was found incised on a slab of black stone attached to the wall of a well in the town of Mangrol in Junagarh, in South Kathiawar. It contains 25 lines, opening with *Om namaḥ Sivāya* and invocation of Hara (Siva). It then praises the Caulukya Kumārapāla (c. 1144-73 A. D.), the successor of Siddhārāja (c. 1094-1144 A. D.). Next follows the following genealogy of a family of Guhilas :—