خلاصه ماشینی:
The earliest Muslim monuments in Gujarat are the mosques at Patan, Cambay, Dholka, Baroda, etc.
more general especially under Alµnad Shah, Mahmud Begada (1458-1511) who founded Champaner and Mehemedabad, not to mention the many princes and amirs who built or repaired so many palaces, tombs, vavs (step-wells), tanks, and other buildings.
During the time we have been talking of, Baroda was only a small village known as Vadapadragrama, but during Muslim rule it grew and replaced the old district centre Ankottaka.
Though neglected, this mound is a rich archeeologicalsite, probably covering the ruins of the pre-Muslim Ankottaka, and Hindu sculptures of the znd, 8th, roth, r rth and rjth centuries have come to light in the course of the excavations undertaken by the Public Works Department.
A systematic search in the building area offered interesting revelations on the material culture of the Muslim period : a great collection of pottery fragments, basket-wells, remnants of a smithy, bangles, terra-cottas and other articles used from the late 14th to the 17th century A.
From the area near to the Central Jail terra-cotta horses, pottery, a coin and other well-rims were recovered.
P. Shah's collection) discovered is a terra-cotta horse-head on the neck of which were two small wing-like things.
· Besides this ware, fragments of big water vessels, with herring-bone• and finger-impressed designs, flower vases, stucco work, bangle pieces; and six coins were also discovered.