SOLANKI or Chalukya. The history of this branch of the four Aguicula Rajputs cannot be traced to such peijods of antiquity as the Pramara l's'Rieregtha..9„...---The tradition of the bard makes the Solan important a.s princes of Suru on the Ganges, before the Ralitor obtained Kanouj. Their capital was to India what Venice was to Europe, the entrepot of the products of both the eastern and western hemispheres. It fully re covered the shock given by Malimucl and the • desultory wars of his successors and Sid Rae Jye Singh, the seventh from the founder, was at the head of the richest, if -not the most warlike, kingdom of India. The lieutenants of Shahab-ud• Din disturbed the close of Komarpars reign ; and his successor, Ballo Muldeo, closed this dynasty in S. 1284 (A.D. 1228), when a new dynasty, called the Bagliela (descendants of Sid Rae) under Beesildeo, succeeded. Though the stem of the Solanki was thus uprooted, many of its branches (Sachm) had fixed themselves in other soils. The most conspicuous of these is the
Baghela family, which gave its name to an entire division of Hindustan ; and Baghelcund has now been ruled for many centuries by the descendants of Sid Rae. Besides Bandugurh, there are minor chieftainsbips still in Gujerat of the I3aghela tribe. Of these, Pitapur and Theraud are the most conspicuous. One of the chieftains of the second class in Mewar is a Solanki, and traces his line immediately from Sid Rae ; this is the chief of Rupnagurh, whose stronghold com mands one of the passes leading to Marwar, and whose family annals would furnish a fine picture of the state of border feuds. The Solanki is divided into sixteen branches. The name of the Bagliela subdivision is from Bliag Rao, tbe son of Sid Rae, though the bards have another tradition for its origin. Tod (Rajasthan, pp. 80 and 97) styles the Anhalwara family Solanki and Chalukya.