Whether or not the ancestors of the Gohils and Válas were settled in Káthiáváda before the establishment of Valabhi about A.D. 526 several considerations bear out the correctness of the Rájput traditions and the Jain records that the Gohils or Sesodias of Mewád came from Bála or Valabhi in Káthiáváda. Such a withdrawal from the coast, the result of the terror of Arab raids, is in agreement with the fact that from about the middle of the eighth century the rulers of Gujarát established an inland capital at Anahilaváda (A.D. 746). [324] It is further in agreement with the establishment by the Gohil refugees of a town Balli in Mewád; with the continuance as late as A.D. 968 (S. 1024) by the Sesodia chief of the Valabhi title Síláditya or Sail [325]; and with the peculiar Valabhi blend of Sun and Siva worship still to be found in Udepur. [326] The question remains how far can the half-poetic accounts of the Sesodias be reconciled with a date for the fall of Valabhi so late as A.D. 766. The mythical wanderings, the caveborn Guha, and his rule at Idar can be easily spared. The name Gehlot which the Sesodias trace to the caveborn Guha may as the Bhávnagar Gehlots hold have its origin in Guhasena (A.D. 559-567) perhaps the first Valabhi chief of more than local distinction. [327] Tod [328] fixes the first historical date in the Sesodia family history at A.D. 720 or 728 the ousting of the Mori or Maurya of Chitor by Bappa or Sail. An inscription near Chitor shows the Mori in power in Chitor as late as A.D. 714 (S. 770). [329] By counting back nine generations from Sakti Kumára the tenth from Bappa whose date is A.D. 1038 Tod fixes A.D. 720-728 as the date when the Gohils succeeded the Moris. But the sufficient average allowance of twenty years for each reign would bring Bappa to A.D. 770 or 780 a date in agreement with a fall of Valabhi between A.D. 760 and 770, as well as with the statement of Abul Fazl, who, writing in A.D. 1590, says the Rána's family had been in Mewád for about 800 years. [330] [The Válas of Káthiáváda.] The Arab accounts of the surprise-attack and of the failure of the invaders to make a settlement agree with the local and Rájputána traditions that a branch of the Valabhi family continued to rule at Valeh until its conquest by Múla Rája Solankhi in A.D. 950. [331] Though their bards favour the explanation of Vála from the Gujaráti valvu return or the Persian válah [332] noble the family claim to be of the old Valabhi stock. They still have the tradition they were driven out by the Musalmáns, they still keep up the family name of Selait or Síláditya. [333]