Historical Geography of Ancient India c9.264

c9.264

*Vallabhi*.—It was a prosperous town in the country of the Gurjaras where reigned a king named Śilāditya (Law, *Some Jaina Canonical Sūtras*, pp. 183-184). The ruins of the city of Valabhi or Vallabhi were found near Bhaonagar on the eastern side of Gujarat (*A.S.W.I.*, Vol. II). In an inscription of the 5th century it has been mentioned as a beautiful kingdom of Balabhadra (*J.A.S.B.*, 1838, p. 976). A rich master-mariner lived in this city in Surāṣṭra named Gṛhagupta who had a daughter named Ratnavatī whom a merchant’s son, Balabhadra, came from Madhumatī to marry (Daśakumāracaritam, p. 158). It was known to Hiuen Tsang as Fa-la-pi. The kingdom of Valabhi included the whole of the Peninsula of Gujarat and the districts of Bharoch and Surat according to Yuan Chwang (C.A.G.I., pp. 363ff. and p. 697).