The Chaulukya dynasty, also Solanki dynasty, was a dynasty that ruled parts of what are now Gujarat and Rajasthan in north-western India, between c. 940 CE and c. 1244 CE. Their capital was located at
A 1010 CE copper-plate inscription from the reign of Durlabharaja
Jain Shvetambara Tirthankara in Meditation, Chaulukya period now in Metropolitan Museum of Art, c. 1000 – c. 1050
Bhima I was a Chaulukya king who ruled parts of present-day Gujarat, India. The early years of his reign saw an invasion from the Ghaznavid ruler Mahmud, who sacked the Somnath temple. Bhima left his
Ruins of the Somnath temple in 1869
Sun Temple, Modhera was constructed around a year after Mahmud's invasion
Vimal Vasahi Temple, Mount Abu
Popular tradition attributes the construction of Rani ki vav to Bhima's queen Udayamati