Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Solanki Gurjars" in Simple English language version.
pithet "Pratihara" after "Gurjara" comes with dubious distinctions. Some opines that they served as a body guards to other rulers like Guhilot while some say the epithet was given as the defender of the India's frontier since they repulsed and threw out Arab's from India's heartland. In spite of their military success, they must have remained delegitimized in the eyes of masses and Brahmins because of their obscure foreign origin. The other Gujjar clans like Chauhan, Paramara, Solanki, Chavda, Vaghela and Guhilot remained the allies and fiduciary to paramount ruler of Imperial Gurjara-Pratihara.
The Solanki clan of Gurjars ruled Gujarat from c. 960 to 1243. Gujarat was a major center of Indian Ocean trade, and their capital at Anhilwara (Patan) was one of the largest cities in India, with population estimated at 100,000 in the year 1000. In 1026, the famous Somnath temple in Gujarat was destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni. After 1243, the Solkanis lost control of Gujarat to their feudatories, of whom the Vaghela chiefs of Dholka came to dominate Gujarat.[permanent dead link]
History tells us that Gujjars have ruled from Gujarat, Jodhpur, and Kathiawad to Baliya during 641 century A.D. and during this time it was known as Gujjar Desh. Chawada and Solanki Gujjars have ruled over Deccan Gujarat from 610-942 A.D, while Gujjars ruled over here from 700-1573 A.D. Central Institute of Indian language, Mysore has prepared a Grammar. in which is written that Gujjars left the plain areas after their decline and shifted to Himalayan regions.
It is Solanki in Gujrati and Rajasthani, Solangi in Sindhi and Punjabi.
Im 11. und 12. Jh. fiel Saurashtra schließlich in die Hände der Solanki (oder Chalukyan)-Dy- nastie, die von einem Gurjar-Clan abstamm- te. Es folgte ein goldenes Zeitalter, in dem die Herrscher neue prachtvolle Hindu- und Jain- Tempel und Stufenbrunnen erbauen ließen und jene wieder aufbauten, die dem verheerenden Beutezug des Mahmud von Ghazni im Jahr 1027 zum Opfer gefallen waren.
In 941 (961?) the kingdom of Anhilvada was conquered by Mularaja Solanki, son of a Gujar chief who probably ruled somewhere in northern Rajputana.
Their empire broke up into separate states-Chouhans of Ajmer, Paramars of Dhar, Chavadas of Ahnilvada. In 941 A.D. the Kingdom of Ahnilvada was conquered by Mulraj Solanki son of a Gujar Chief.
