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² Further references are: V. A. Smith, 'The Gurjaras of Rājputāna and Kanauj' (*J. R. A. S.*, 1909, Jan. and April); 'White Hun (Ephthalite) Coins from the Panjāb' (ibid., Jan., 1907); 'White Hun Coin of Vyāghramukha' (ibid., Oct., 1907); 'The Outliers of Rājasthānī' (*Ind. Ant.*, 1911); and D. R. Bhandarkar, 'The Gurjaras' (*J. Bo. Br. R. A. S.*, vol. xxi). The same author's paper 'Guhilots' (*J. & Proc. A. S. B.* (N.S.), vol. v, 1909), is most suggestive and valuable. He demonstrates that the Rānās of Mewār or Udaipur, admittedly the premier chiefs in Rājputāna and the leaders of the Rājpūt chivalry, are descended from Nāgar Brahmans; that their ancestors, after they became chiefs, were known as Brahmakshatris, and that they were closely associated with the kings of Valabhī, who belonged to the Hūna-Gurjara group. Bhandarkar's views about the descent of the Rānās are disputed at great length by Pandit Mohaulal Vishnulal Pandia, who criticizes his documents and upholds the tradition that the Rānās are descended from the kings of Valabhī (*J. & Proc. A. S. B.*, 1912, pp. 63-99). He does not, however, seriously shake Bhandarkar's close reasoning. There is no real proof of the descent of the Rānās from the Valabhī kings, but, as Bhandarkar shows, both parties, i. e. the Rānās (=Nāgar Brahmans) and the Valabhīs, seem to have been Maitrakas, and closely associated with the Gurjaras.