Chaulukya Queen Naikidevi- The Defender of Gujarat From Muhammad Ghori
Chaulukya Queen Naikidevi- The Defender of Gujarat From Muhammad Ghori The history of the Chaulukyas of Gujarat has never suffered from want of historians since Hemachandra wrote his Dvyāśrayakāvya. His lead in this field of literature was followed by many writers such as, Someśvara, Somaprabha, Chandraprabha or Prabhachandra, Balāchandra, Udayaprabha, Merutunga, Jayasimha Suri and others. Many of these authors really wrote the biography of Kumarapala or of Vastupala and Tejahpala, but even such biographies usually contained a canto, or, if the whole work consisted of a short prasasti, several verses, in praise of the Chaulukya kings. The information thus left is, however, often of the greatest importance for reconstructing the history of the Chaulukyas of Gujarat. Far more remarkable than the heroic martyrdom of Lakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, was this dazzling victory in the Indian annals scored by a valiant woman against a treacherous, ruthless, and barbaric i...