The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s1.51

c5.s1.51

Anandapura—Vadnagar in northern Gujarat, seventy miles south-east of Sidhpur (St. Martin, as cited in McCrindle’s Ptolemy), but there is still a place called Ânandpur, fifty miles north-west of Valabhî. It was anciently called Ânarttapura (see the two copper-plate inscriptions of Âlinâ of A.D. 649 and 651). It was visited by Hiuen Tsiang (Burgess’ Antiquities of Kathiawad-Kachh, p. 84). Ânandapura or Vadnagar is also called Nagara which is the original home of the Nâgara Brâhmaṇs of Gujarat. Kumârapâla surrounded it with a rampart (Dr. Bühler, Ep. Indica, vol. 1, p. 295). Bhadrabâhu Svâmî, the author of the Kalpasûtra, composed in A.D. 411, flourished at the court of Dhruvasena II, king of Gujarat, whose capital was at this place (see Dr. Stevenson’s Kalpasûtra: Preface).