Ra Mandalika III was the Abhira  ruler of Junagarh (1432–1470) and was the son of Khangara III.Ra Mandalika I ascended the throne in 1260A.D when the muslims were begenning to establish their rule in Gujarat. Ra Mundalika died in 1400 A.D; Ra Melaka (1400-1415 A.D) succeeded him who drove the muslims garrison out but afterwords he himself was driven out. Ra Mundalika also fought with Mahmud Ghaznavi.Somnath

Somnath

The Somnath Temple located in the Prabhas Kshetra near Veraval in Saurashtra, on the western coast of Gujarat, India, is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines of the God Shiva. Somnath means "The Protector of Moon God". The Somnath Temple is known as "the Shrine Eternal", having been destroyed...

 temple

Temple

A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same root as the word "template," a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out...

 was attacked by Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

 General Alaf Khan but was fought by Mundalika. Later on Sultan Mahmud Begada forced Ra Mandalika III embrace Islam or face death and thus ended the relative independence of Saurastra. Ra Mandalika accepted Islam

Islam

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 and received the title of Khan

Khan (title)

Khan is an originally Altaic and subsequently Central Asian title for a sovereign or military ruler, widely used by medieval nomadic Turko-Mongol tribes living to the north of China. 'Khan' is also seen as a title in the Xianbei confederation for their chief between 283 and 289...

Jahan and his descendants long occupied the respectable posts at the Gujarat Court.