Saurāṣṭra

Saurāṣṭra is the peninsular region of Gujarat in western India (the Kathiawar peninsula). According to the Tibetan historians Butön and Tāranātha, the eighth-century Madhyamaka master Śāntideva — author of the Bodhicaryāvatāra — was born a prince of Saurāṣṭra before renouncing the throne and entering the monastic life at Nālandā.