Patan Gujarat
Patan (पाटन)/(पाटण) is a town and District in Gujarat. The city contains many Hindu and Jain temples as well as few mosques, dargahs and rojas. The city has many historical places also. It was a capital of Gujarat in medieval times.It is variously referred to in Sanskrit literature as Anahilapataka(अणहिलपाटक) , Anahipattan, Anahilpur, Anahilvad Pattan, Pattan etc.
History
Patan, an ancient fortified town, was founded in 745 AD by Vanraj Chavda, the most prominent king of the Chavda Kingdom. He named the city Anhilpur Patan or "Anhilwad Patan" after his close friend and Prime Minister Anhila. The Chalukyas, with Paramaras of Malwa, the Chauhans of Sakambhari and Chandelas of Kalinjar and Mahoba, were serious contestants for supremacy in northern India. At the zenith of their imperial greatness the bounds of Gujarat were extended to cover Saurashtra and Kutch in the West, Lata in the South, Malwa in the East and Southern Rajasthan in the North. Historian Tertius Chandler estimates that Anhilwara was the tenth-largest city in the world in the year 1000, with a population of approximately 100,000.
When Muizzuddin Muhammad Ghori had attempted to conquer Gujarat, the forces of Mularaja-II, the then King of Patan, a mere boy-ruler, led by his heroic mother Naikidevi, inflicted such a crushing and conclusive defeat on him that the foreigner did not dare again during his lifetime to cast his greedy eye upon Patan. He never again entered India through Gujarat. The battle was fought at Kayadra, a village near Mount Abu. Muizzuddin’s army was completely routed in the conflict, but somehow he escaped with his defeated army from Gujarat.Muhammed's general (and later Sultanate of Delhi Qutb-ud-din Aybak sacked the city between 1200 and 1210, and it was destroyed by the Alladin Khilji in 1298.
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