History:Aror dynasty
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Aror dynasty | |
|---|---|
| 450 BC–489 AD | |
| Capital | Aror |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Government | Absolute Monarchy |
| Maharaja | |
| Historical era | Iron Age India |
• Established | 450 BC |
• Disestablished | 489 AD |
As capital of the Sauvira Kingdom, Aror city is mentioned as an important trading center in early Buddhist literature.[1] Buddhist Jataka stories talk about exchanges of gifts between King Rudrayan of Roruka and King Bimbisara of Magadha.[2] Divyavadana, the Buddhist chronicle has said that Roruka historically competed with Pataliputra in terms of political influence.[3] The scholar T.W. Rhys Davids has mentioned Roruka as one of the most important cities of India in the 7th century BCE.[4]
Shortly after the reign of Rudrayan, in the times of his son Shikhandi, Roruka got wiped out in a major sand storm.[5] This event is recorded in both Buddhist (Bhallatiya Jataka) and Jain[6] annals.
It was succeeded by the Rai Dynasty in 489 AD which was then followed by the Brahman dynasty until the capture of Al Ror by the Arabs in 711 CE.[7]
See also
- Sauvira Kingdom
References
- ↑ Derryl N. MacLean (1989), Religion and Society in Arab Sind, BRILL, p.63 ISBN 9004085513
- ↑ "The Story of Rudrayana". http://www.borobudur.tv/avadana_07.htm.
- ↑ "The Divyavadana (Tibetan version) reports: 'The Buddha is in Rajgriha. At this time there were two great cities in Jambudvipa: Pataliputra and Roruka. When Roruka rises, Pataliputra declines; when Pataliputra rises, Roruka declines.' Here was Roruka of Sindh competing with the capital of the Magadha empire." Chapter 'Sindhu is divine', The Sindh Story, by K. R. Malkani from Karachi, Publisher: Sindhi Academy (1997), ISBN:81-87096-01-2
- ↑ Page 317, Lord Mahavira and His Times, by Kailash Chand Jain, Published 1992 by Motilal Banarsidass Publications, ISBN:81-208-0805-3
- ↑ Page 174, Alexander's campaigns in Sind and Baluchistan and the siege of the Brahmin town of Harmatelia, Volume 3 of Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta, by Pierre Herman Leonard Eggermont, Peeters Publishers, 1975, ISBN:90-6186-037-7
- ↑ Story of Udayan and the town of Vitabhaya
- ↑ Page 45, History of the Punjab, Volume 1 by Fauja Singh, Published by the Department of Punjab Historical Studies, Punjabi University, 1977
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