Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c18.12

c18.12

Owing to their special constitution a people in Western India acquired the name Bhojas. This is probably a case where a nation is formed on account of its political constitution. The Andhaka-Vrishṇis were in the peninsula of Gujrat or Kathiawad. The name Bhoja or Bhaujya still survives in modern Bhuj, the capital of an Indian state (Cutch) in the Kathiawad Agency. Gujarat is one of the most ancient seats of Bhaujya; but it is likely that the Satvats had spread southwards, as the Aitareya places them in the south. If the author of the Aitareya was in the north of the Kuru land which he places in the Middle Country, he might locate Gujrat in the south.