The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s9.3

c7.s9.3

It is during this period of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra Empire that some of the oldest among the Rajput *Vaṁśāvalī* or genealogical chronicles owed their origin or rather in which the oldest dates for the establishment of certain Rajput dynasties, e.g. those of Jaipur, Jodhpur, Alwar etc., have been placed in subsequent years.³⁰ It should be observed also that in a study of Hindu states the continuity of Rajput principalities,—although with periods of submergence in Turkish and Moghul times,—from the days of the Gurjara-Pratīhāra Empire until today, i.e., for a period of nearly one thousand years has to be accepted as an item of major importance in Hindu cultural evolution.³¹ The Gurjara-Pratīhāra Empire comprised at times the western Punjab, Kāśmīr, Nepal, Kathiawar, the U.P., Bihar, North Bengal, Orissa, and Assam. Only Sind appears to have been outside the sphere of its sovereignty, which covered, as it did, virtually the whole of Northern India.