The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c30.36

c30.36

The war with Valabhī, which resulted in the complete defeat of Dhruvasena (Dhruvabhata) II, and the flight of that prince into the dominions of the Rāja of Bharōch (Broach), who relied probably on the powerful support of the Chalukya monarch, seems to have occurred later than A.D. 633 and before Hiuen Tsang's visit to Western India in 641 or 642. Dhruvabhata, as already related, was compelled to sue for peace, to accept the hand of the victor's daughter, and to be content with the position of a feudatory vassal. The same campaign may be presumed to have involved the submission of the kingdoms or countries of Ānandapura, Ki-c'ha, or (?) Cutch, and Soratha, or Southern Kāthiāwār, all of which in A.D. 641 were still reckoned to be dependencies of Mo-la-p'o, or Western Mālava, formerly subject to Valabhī.¹