This is said in the Tarikh-i-Sorath by Ranchhodji Diwan to have been built by Rao Deshalji I of Cutch State in 1714, but its construction is popularly ascribed to Meraman Khavas.
[1] The river Aji, which flows by Rajkot, falls into the Little Rann of Kutch about six miles from Balambha.
It is said that when Ra Navghan of Junagadh was marching to Cutch to avenge Jaasal, he halted here and was athirst and the men that were with him.
She directed him to plunge his spear into the hillock ; he did so and water flowed forth and he appeased his thirst and that of his army.
[2] The population is of Gurjar Kshatriya Kadia, Sathvara, Lohana, Bharvad, Brahmin, Koli, Khoja, Muslim, etc.