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Avanijanashraya Pulakeshin
Avanijanashraya Pulakeshin was a prince of the Gujarat branch of the Chalukyas of Badami, who governed southern Gujarat as a vassal of Vikramaditya II. His Navsari copper-plate grant of 739 records that he defeated an Arab army raiding from Sindh, a victory for which the Chalukya king rewarded him with honorific titles. The raid was part of wider Umayyad attacks on western India.
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