The date of the Chúdásamá settlement at Vanthalí is usually fixed on traditional evidence, at about A.D. 875, but there is reason to think that this date is rather too early. In the first place it is worthy of notice that Chúdáchandra, the traditional eponym of the family, is in the Tuhfat-ul-Kirám made a son of Jádam (Yádava) and only a great-grandson of Krishna himself, a fact which suggests that, if not entirely mythical, he was at all events a very distant ancestor of Múlarája's opponent Grahári, and was not an actual ruler of Vanthalí. As regards Grahári's father Visvavaráha and his grandfather Múlarája, there is no reason to doubt that they were real persons, although it is very questionable whether the Chúdásamás were settled in Káthiáváda in their time. In the first place, the Morbí grant of Jáikadeva shows that the Jethvás had not been driven southwards before A.D. 907. Secondly Dharanívaráha's Vadhván grant proves that the Chápa family of Bhínmál were still supreme in Káthiáváda in A.D. 914: whereas the Taríkh-i-Tahiri's account of the Chúdásamá conquest of Kacch implies that the Cháwaras, who must be identified with the Chápas of Bhínmál, were losing their power when the Chúdásamás captured Gúntrí, an event which must have preceded the settlement at Vanthalí in Káthiáváda. Beyond the fact that Múlarája Solanki transferred the capital to Anahilaváda in A.D. 942, we know nothing of the events which led to the break-up of the Bhínmál empire. But it is reasonable to suppose that between A.D. 920 and 940 the Chápas gradually lost ground and the Chúdásamás were able first to conquer Sindh and then to settle in Káthiáváda.--A. M. T. J.]