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locality is assigned to Sauvîra in the Vishnu Purâna : “in the extreme west are the Saurâshtras, Suras, Abhîras, Arbudas; the Kârushas and Mâlavas dwelling along the Pâripâtra mountains; the Sauvîras, the Saindhavas, the Hûnas, the Sâlwas, the people of Sakala, the Madras, etc.”* In this enumeration we find mention of nearly every known district lying around Vadari, or Eder, on the east, west, north, and south. But there is no notice of Vadari itself, nor of Kheda, nor of Khambay, nor of Analwâra, from which I infer that Sauvîra most probably included the whole of these places. Vadari, or Sauvîra, was therefore equivalent to southern Râjputâna.