rajarshi shahu built the sudarshan lake in the saurashtra region.
rajarshi shahu built the sudarshan lake in the saurashtra region.
who built the sudarshan lake in the saurashtra region?
rajarshi shahu
the early history of gujarat reflects the imperial grandeur of chandragupta maurya who conquered a number of earlier states in what is now gujarat. pushyagupta, a vaishya, was appointed the governor of saurashtra by the mauryan regime. he ruled girinagar (modern-day junagadh) (322 bc to 294 bc) and built a dam on the sudarshan lake. emperor ashoka, the grandson of chandragupta maurya, not only ordered engraving of his edicts on the rock at junagadh but asked governor tusherpha to cut canals from the lake where an earlier mauryan governor had built a dam. between the decline of mauryan power and saurashtra coming under the sway of the samprati mauryas of ujjain, there was an indo-greek defeat in gujarat of demetrius. in 16th century manuscripts, there is an apocryphal story of a merchant of king gondaphares landing in gujarat with apostle thomas. the incident of the cup-bearer torn apart by a lion might indicate that the port city described is in gujarat.
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the kshatrapa dynasty was replaced by the gupta empire with the conquest of gujarat by chandragupta vikramaditya. vikramaditya's successor skandagupta left an inscription (ad 450) on a rock at junagadh which gives details of the governor's repairs to the embankment surrounding sudarshan lake after it was damaged by floods. the anarta and saurashtra regions were both parts of the gupta empire. towards the middle of the 5th century, the gupta empire went into decline. senapati bhatarka, the maitraka general of the guptas, took advantage of the situation and in 470 he set up what came to be known as the maitraka state. he shifted his capital from giringer to valabhipur, near bhavnagar, on saurashtra's east coast. the maitrakas of vallabhi became very powerful with their rule prevailing over large parts of gujarat and adjoining malwa. a university was set up by the maitrakas, which came to be known far and wide for its scholastic pursuits and was compared with the noted nalanda university. it was during the rule of dhruvasena maitrak that chinese philosopher-traveler xuanzang/ i tsing visited in 640 along the silk road.
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