THE HISTORY OF KATHIAWAD of square miles of which India consists, are lions now to be found. Cut off from the mainland, evidently in some far distant age, they throve in the forests of Kathiawad, while their species over the remainder of India died out or became exterminated; surviving, however, in one or two localities until the beginning of the nineteenth century* There is little doubt also that Kachh was formerly considered to be part of Saurashtra, though known separately as "Anarta." When the Walabhi kings reigned at Wala, this was the case, but with the fall of that dynasty in about A.D. 766, Kachh became entirely separated. From Chinese writings it would appear that in the fifth and sixth centuries Gujarat also formed part of Saurashtra. The Chinese traveller, Hiouen Tsiang, who came to Wala about AJ>. 640, recorded the fact that the boundaries of Saurashtra extended as far as the Mahi River and that its circumference measured 1200 miles. Within such boundaries the part now known as Gujarat found a place. Of the original race inhabiting Kathiawad we have few traces, and such as exist are merely those contained in the old Jain writings or other similar records. Much reliance, however, cannot be placed on these semi-mythical works, which record that the earliest inhabitants were a race of demons! From the ancient Puranas, and other works of like nature, we are able to gather a few putative facts about Kathiawad in so far as they have bearing on Shri Krishna's connexion with that land of Hinduism. We learn from those that in very ancient times—variously computed as being between the years 1000-1200 B.C. and 3000-4000 B.C.—there ruled in Saurashtra a king of the Solar Race, Rewat by name, at the time when Shri Krishna was driven out of Mathura by Jarasandha, King of Magadh, and went to Dwarka. There is also a story concerning the marriage of Baldeo, Krishna's brother, 6