[Pañchásar, A.D. 788.] Before the establishment of Anahilaváda a small Chávadá chiefship centred at Pañchásar, now a fair-sized village in Vadhiár between Gujarát and Kacch. [505] The existence of a Chávadá chiefship at Pañchásar is proved by the Navsárí grant dated Samvat 490 (A.D. 788-89) of the Gujarát Chálukya king Pulikesí Janásraya. This grant in recording the triumphant progress of an army of Tájikas or Arabs from Sindh to Navsárí and mentioning the kingdoms "afflicted" by the Arabs, names the Chávotakas next after the kings of Kacch and Sauráshtra. These Chávotakas can be no other than the Chávadás of Pañchásar on the borders of Kacch. The Chávadás of Pañchásar do not appear to have been important rulers. At the most they seem to have held Vadhiár and part of the north coast of Káthiáváda. Whatever be the origin of the name Chávadá, which was afterwards Sanskritised into the highsounding Chápotkata or Strongbow, it does not seem to be the name of any great dynasty. The name very closely resembles the Gujaráti Chor (Prakrit Chautá or Choratá) meaning thieves or robbers; and Jávadá, which is a further corruption of Chávadá, is the word now in use in those parts for a thief or robber. Except the mention of the Chávotakas in the Navsárí copperplate we do not find the Chávadás noticed in any known cotemporary Gujarát copperplates. For this reason it seems fair to regard them as unimportant rulers over a territory extending from Pañchásar to Anahilaváda. [Jayasekhara, A.D. 696.] The author of the Ratnamálá (C. 1230 A.D.) says that in A.D. 696 (S. 752) Jayasekhara the Chávadá king of Pañchásar was attacked by the Chaulukya king Bhuvada of Kalyánakataka in Kanyákubja or Kanoj and slain by Bhuvada in battle. Before his death Jayasekhara, finding his affairs hopeless, sent his pregnant wife Rupasundarí to the forest in charge of her brother Surapála, one of his chief warriors. After Jayasekhara's death Rupasundarí gave birth to a son named Vanarája who became the illustrious founder of Anahilaváda. It is hard to say how much truth underlies this tradition. In the seventh century not Chaulukya but Pála kings flourished in Kanoj. No place of importance called Kalyánakataka is recorded in the Kanoj territory. And though there was a southern Chálukya kingdom with its capital at Kalyán, its establishment at Kalyán was about the middle of the eleventh not in the seventh century. Further the known Dakhan Chálukya lists contain no king named Bhuvada, unless he be the great Chálukya king Vijayáditya (A.D. 696-733) also called Bhuvanásraya, who warred in the north and was there imprisoned but made his escape. The inference is that the author of the Ratnamálá, knowing the Solankis originally belonged to a city called Kalyán, and knowing that a Chálukya king named Bhuvada had defeated the Chávadás may have called Bhuvada king of Kalyánkataka and identified Kalyánkataka with a country so well known to Puránic fame as Kanyákubja.