Gohil dynasty

They later moved to the east coast where they established themselves and the region came to be known as Gohilwar and ruled till the independence of India in 1947.

The erstwhile princely states of Bhavnagar, Palitana, Lathi, Vala and Rajpipla belonged to Gohil rulers.

The old family title of Rawal or Raol was earned at the memorable battle of Chittor, fought with Alauddin Khilji in 1303.

D. R. Bhandarkar, C. V. Vaidya and Gaurishankar Oza have established origin of Gohils with Guhila dynasty of Medapata (Guhilots of Mewar).

Then it mentions the family of Guhila, Sahara, his son Sahajiga, who was an anga-niguhaka (commander of army) of the Chaulukyas; his eldest son Muluka, protector of Surashtra (Saurashtraraksh-kshama and Saurashtra-nayaka); his younger brother Somaraja who built a Maheshwara (Shiva) temple at Somnath and named it Sahajigeshwara after his father.

[4] The sub-joined inscription in the black stone slab of the pedestral of idol of Laxmi Narayan temple near the Darbargadh of Mahuva near Bhavnagar.

[8][4] Raval Sarangji is also mentioned as ruler of Ghogha port in VS 1469 as a feudatory of the Delhi Sultanate in the manuscript of Vishnu Bhakti Chandrodaya.

[9] The inscription on paliya (memorial stone) dated VS 1722 (1666 CE) standing near 36 pillared shrine (deri) in Halvad records death of Gohil Lakhaji, son of Asaji and his wife Potbai and grandson of Gohil Chachaji, while fighting for Raja Gajasimhaji who must have been Zala ruler who ruled from 1661 to 1673 CE.

Another inscription on paliya near it mentions Gohil Vasaji, son of Karanji and his wife Jivibai and grandson of Govindji, who died in battle in fighting for Maharaja Jaswantsinhji in VS 1749 (1693 CE).

[10] A paliya in Gundi village near Ghogha has inscription dated VS 1755 (1699 CE) mentioning death of Gohil Kanoji, son Lakha, in battle a year earlier.

The last prince of Khera, Mohadasa, was killed by Siaji, grandson of the Rathod ruler 'Jayacandra' of Kanauj, according to the tradition.

Kavat gave him a grant of Shahpur and surrounding twelve villages in Panchal (central Sairashtra).

[1] James W. Watson, in Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Kathiawar Volume VIII (1884) had given VS 1290 and reason as their rivalry with Rathods.

He suggests that Sahajiga had first migrated from Luni valley and took service under Chaulukya king Siddharaja Jayasimha.

[13] Sejakji's fifth brother Visoji married a daughter of Dhandh of Mer tribe of village Khas who was ruler of Dhandhuka.

They lived in Khas for fifteen generations and Aranji II moved to neighbouring Matiyala in the early eighteenth century.

By his grace, he had sons so he built a mosque in his honour and vowed that his descendant will offer a leather (called Budi) when they are virgin.

[1] The rulers of Palitana and Lathi States trace their ancestry to Shahji and Saranji, two sons of Sejakji.

His successor Visoji (1370-1395) was involved in a dispute of Jani and Rana clans of Audichya Brahman landlords of Sihor.

Mokhadaji's younger son Samarsinhji was taken to his maternal uncle Chokrana, the prince of Junaraj (old Rajpipla), of Parmar dynasty of Ujjain.