Historians who believe in total disappearance of the Indus River discover the Gurjara-Pratiharas obstructing the movement of Arab armies on the eastern bank of this river.
Scholars are divided on the origin of the name of ‘Prati-Haras’ , but they do not search for its root in various other forms of this name preserved in different ancient texts like the Bible and Pali sources. The term Gurjara identifies the Mt Jarudhira of the Indian puranas, and Mt Zered or Zadok of the Bible. It also identifies the seat of worship of God to whom Jara Sabara was worshipping . Jarudhira was in the neighbourhood of Hastinapura or the ancient settlement of the Hasti or Gaja(Elephantine of the Bible) tribes. It is written in most of the ancient books that Hastinapura has been completely washed away by a flood in the river Ganges. This forced the Pratiharas to migrate from their ‘first land’ and search for their new settlements elsewhere. Thus Pratiharas as an influential priest group of people who were previously attached to the seat of worship at Bethany or Peithan and also to the Pei-to Tree, after their migration, put their ancient identity in the new settlements. The most historic identity of the Pratiharas has survived in Sri Jagannath Temple cult in Puri. Their identity as ‘door keepers’ means they remain at the door step to bless the devotees with their ‘three canes’ which is called ‘Chinapati’, and it is as same as Hebr Chinnereth. They were never Kshatriyas as some scholars mention on their dynastic origin.
Nagabhata I who defeated the Arabian army led by Junaid and Tamin during the Caliphate movement in ancient India, said to have come from this Gurjara-Pratihara. It is important here to identify the region of the ‘Nagas’ or the ‘Serpent Plains’ of the Quran along with the House of Cadmus of the Greeks who was responsible for raising this Serpent clan in the Negev. Dasaratha of Ajodhya belonged to the Naga clan. So Nagabhata’s son who is identified with the name of Rama-bhadra explains their historic origin in the Negev or the ‘south’ region. And it is wrong to extend this royal seat to ‘North’. Moreover, Mihir Bhoj and Mahendra Pal who boosted this dynasty to reach its heightened glory, project a different historic picture through their names which are attached both to ‘Bhoj’ and ‘Pal’. This signifies their origin from different class of people, and negates a specified clan for them in history. Buddhist sources call Bhojas as ‘Vrijj’, and this has not been treated favourably by our own historians of merit. The Pitnikias also represent the Bhoja kings; and the Pal dynasty which is directly linked to biblical sources, remains far away from their real historical base and history texts of our times has not given them what they deserve through times. This gives a wrong picture of the histories for the dynasties which appeared and also disappeared in ancient India but somewhere they have survived in other sources of world history outside India.
The last of the power centre of the Pratiharas, according to scholars, is linked to Gangetic Doab. But this river’s ancient sources as pointed out by Ptolemy and Chinese pilgrims need to be looked at seriously. Name of Rshtrakuta king like Indra III, who sacked Kanuaja in 916 A.D. requires further clarification relating to the names Rashtrakuta, and Indra’ as both the names historically refer to ‘Ashta’-grama or Astola or Easter and Bethany being a part of this primordial geography of Uttara Kuru holds the key of Pratihara’ ancient identity. Ancient Kanauja is variously called in the Bible as well as in Homer’s epics. And this is more important than anything else.
Scholars who find ‘Gurjara’ as the name of a country should see that ancient India is not the present political India.