may have joined the conquering armies of the Húnas and passing south with the Húnas may have won a settlement in Káthiáváda as the Káthis and Jhádejás settled about 300 years later. After Senápati Bhatárka's conquests in the south of the Peninsula the Mehrs seem to have retired to the north of Káthiáváda. The above account of the founder of the Valabhis accepts the received opinion that he was the Senápati or General of the Guptas. The two chief points in support of this view are that the Valabhis adopted both the Gupta era and the Gupta currency. Still it is to be noted that this adoption of a previous era and currency by no means implies any connection with the former rulers. [287] Both the Gurjjaras (A.D. 580) and the Chálukyas (A.D. 642) adopted the existing era of the Traikútakas (A.D. 248-9) while as regards currency the practice of continuing the existing type is by no means uncommon. [288] In these circumstances, and seeing that certain of the earlier Valabhi inscriptions refer to an overlord who can hardly have been a Gupta, the identification of the king to whom the original Senápati owed allegiance must be admitted to be doubtful. All known copperplates down to those of Dharasena (A.D. 579 the great grandson of Bhatárka) give a complete genealogy from Bhatárka to Dharasena. Later copperplates omit all mention of any descendants but those in the main line. [Senápati's Sons.] Senápati Bhatárka had four sons, (1) Dharasena (2) Dronasimha (3) Dhruvasena and (4) Dharapatta. Of Dharasena the first son no record has been traced. His name first appears in the copperplates of his brother Dhruvasena where like his father he is called Senápati. Similarly of the second son Dronasimha no record exists except in the copperplates of his brother Dhruvasena. In these copperplates unlike his father and elder brother Dhruvasena is called Mahárája and is mentioned as 'invested with royal authority in person by the great lord, the lord of the wide extent of the whole world.' This great lord or paramasvámi could not have been his father Bhatárka. Probably he was the king to whom Bhatárka owed allegiance. It is not clear where Dronasimha was installed king probably it was in Káthiáváda from the south-east of which his father and elder brother had driven back the Mehrs or Maitrakas. [289]