Aayavej

Ayavej or Aiavej is a village in Palitana Taluka of Bhavnagar district of Gujarat, India.

It was a small separate tribute-paying state in the division of the province called Una Sarvaiya, and is situated ten miles south-west of Palitana.

It is an ancient village and is famous as having been the site of a temple of the Khodiar Mata in the time of Ra Navghan I of Junagad, who was carried here by his nurse when an infant at the time Junagadh was taken and Ra Dyas slain by the king of Anhilwad Patan.

It was a taluka of two villages Aayavej and Virpur, and was under the Chok thana during British rule.

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