Paramara

The Paramaras were a Rajput dynasty that ruled Malwa in central India from the tenth century, first as Rashtrakuta feudatories and then as sovereign kings. Around 972 Siyaka sacked the Rashtrakuta capital Manyakheta, and his successors ruled from Dhara. King Bhoja's empire stretched from Chittor to the Konkan and his court became a centre of Sanskrit learning, poetry and temple building.

Wars drained the kingdom, and later kings shifted their capital to Mandu. In 1305 the last Paramara king, Mahalakadeva, was killed by the army of Alauddin Khalji of Delhi, ending the Malwa line.

Paramara chiefships survived beyond the old kingdom. Chokrana of Junaraj, the old Rajpipla in eastern Gujarat, traced his descent from the Paramaras of Ujjain. He left no heir and his nephew Samarsinhji, renamed Arjunsinhji, of the Gohil clan, succeeded him; later Rajpipla rulers counted themselves Gohils.