[Sorath.] Though, under the Musalmáns, peninsular Gujarát did not bear the name of Káthiáváda, it was then, as at present, considered part of the province of Gujarát. During the early years of Musalmán rule, the peninsula, together with a small portion of the adjoining mainland, was known as Sorath, a shortened form of Saurâshtra, the name originally applied by the Hindus to a long stretch of sea-coast between the banks of the Indus and Daman. [678] Towards the close of the sixteenth century the official use of the word Sorath was confined to a portion, though by much the largest part, of the peninsula. At the same time, the name Sorath seems then, and for long after, to have been commonly applied to the whole peninsula. For the author of the Mirat-i-Áhmedi, writing as late as the middle of the eighteenth century (A.D. 1756: A.H. 1170), speaks of Sorath as divided into five districts or zilláhs, Hálár, Káthiáváda, Gohilváda, Bábriáváda, and Jetváda, and notices that though Navánagar was considered a separate district, its tribute was included in the revenue derived from Sorath. [679] In another passage the same writer thus defines Sauráshtra: Sauráshtra or Sorath comprehends the Sarkár of Sorath the Sarkár of Islámnagar or Navánagar and the Sarkár of Kachh or Bhujnagar. It also includes several zillahs or districts, Naiyad which they call Jatwár, Hálár or Navánagar and its vicinity, Káthiáváda, Gohilváda, Bábriáváda, Chorvár, Panchál, Okhágir in the neighbourhood of Jagat otherwise called Dwárka, Prabhás Khetr or Pátan Somnáth and its neighbourhood, Nághír also called Sálgogha, and the Nalkántha. [680] The present Sorath stretches no further than the limits of Junágadh, Bántwa, and a few smaller holdings. [Káthiáváda.] The name Káthiáváda is of recent origin. It was not until after the establishment of Musalmán power in Gujarát that any portion of the peninsula came to bear the name of the tribe of Káthis. Even as late as the middle of the eighteenth century, the name Káthiáváda was applied only to one of the sub-divisions of the peninsula. In the disorders which prevailed during the latter part of the eighteenth century, the Káthis made themselves conspicuous. As it was from the hardy horsemen of this tribe that the tribute-exacting Maráthás met with the fiercest resistance, they came to speak of the whole peninsula as the land of the Káthis. This use was adopted by the early British officers and has since continued.