The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.83

c5.s5.83

Gurjjara—Gujarat and the greater part of Khandesh and Malwa (Conder’s *Modern Traveller*, vol. x, p. 130). In the seventh century, at the time of Hiuen Tsiang, the name was not extended to the peninsula of Gujarat, which was then known only by the name of Saurāṣṭra. The modern district of Marwar was then known by the name of Gurjjara. It appears from the *Periplus* that the south-eastern portion of Gujarat about the mouth of the Nerbudda was called Abhīra, the Aberia of the Greeks. Gujarat was called " Cambay " by the early English travellers. For further particulars, see Guzerat in Pt. II of this work. For the Chalukya kings of Gujarat from Mularaja to Kumarapala, see the Badnagar Inscription in Ep. Ind., Vol. I, p. 203.