[Jhálás.] Another name for the White Húnas, or for a section of the White Húna swarm, is preserved by Cosmas [497] in the form Juvia. This form, if it is not a misreading for Ounia or Húna, suggests Jáuvla the recently identified name of the tribe ennobled in India by the great Toramána (A.D. 450-500) and his son Mihirakula (A.D. 500-540), and of which a trace seems to remain in the Jáwla and Jháwla divisions of Panjáb Gujjars. [498] This Jáuvla, under such a fire baptism as would admit the holders of the name among Hindus, might be turned into Jvála flaming and Jvála be shortened to Jhála. That Jhála was formerly punningly connected with flame is shewn by a line from the bard Chand, 'The lord of the Ránás the powerful Jhála like a flaming fire.' [499] That the Káthiáváda bards were either puzzled by the name Jhála or were unwilling to admit its foreign origin is shewn by the story preserved in the Rás Málá, [500] that the tribe got the name because the children of Hirpál Makvána, about to be crushed by an elephant, were snatched away jhála by their witch-mother. It has been noticed in the text that the break in Gujarát History between A.D. 480 and 520, agreeing with the term of Húna supremacy in North India, seems to imply a similar supremacy in Gujarát. The facts that up to the twelfth century Húnas held a leading place in Gujarát chronicles, [501] and that while in Rájputána and other parts of Northern India the traces of Huns are fairly widespread in Gujarát they have almost if not altogether disappeared, support the view that the Húna strain in Káthiáváda is hid under the names Mera, Jethva, and Jhála. [502] PART II. THE KINGDOM OF ANAHILAVÁDA. A.D. 720-1300. CHAPTER I. THE CHÁVADÁS (A.D. 720-956.) The history embodied in the preceding chapters is more or less fragmentary, pieced together from coins, stone and copperplate inscriptions, local traditions, and other similar sources. A history based on such materials alone must of necessity be imperfect, leaving blanks which it may be hoped fresh details will gradually fill. The rise of the Anahilaváda kingdom (A.D. 720) marks a new period of Gujarát history regarding which materials are available from formal historical writings. [503] Though this section of Gujarát history begins with the establishment of Anahilaváda by the Chávadás (A.D. 720-956) the details for the earlier portions are very imperfect being written during the time of the Chálukya or Solanki (A.D. 957-1242) successors of the Chávadás. The chief sources of information regarding the earlier period of Chávadá rule are the opening chapters of the Prabandhachintámani, Vichárasreni, Sukritasankírtana, and Ratnamálá. [504]