In 1669 A.D Vadnagar was invaded by the Maharana of Mewad. In 1726 A.D Kantaji Kadambadi defeated Nagars and destroyed Vadnagar. Migration of Nagars was further accentuated by the repeated invasions by Marathas. Nagars migrated to places wherever they received royal patronage- places like Patan, Idar, Surat, Bhavnagar, Ahmedabad, Junagadh, Jamnagar, Nadiad, Visnagar, Bhuj in Gujarat, Dungarpur, Jodhpur, Kota, Bundi, Pratapgadh in Rajasthan, Ujjain, Indore, Khandwa, Nasirabad, Burhanpur in Malwa. With migration the Nagar community also fell to divisions and disputes. However, in spite of all the tribulations, Nagars did not give in to religious conversions. In 1693 Emperor Aurangzeb ordered the destruction of the Hateshwar temple at Vadnagar, who is believed to be the special guardian of the Nagar Brahmans. Shri Govindramji Tikaramji, a great Poet of Shajapur, in his “Lambodar Lilambu Nidhi” has written, “Fed up of the atrocities of the Muslim kingdom, our Nagar ancestors moved to malva in 1400 bullockcarts.” Another legend famous as ‘Kuka prasthan’ goes that in 1492, in order to save themselves from the atrocities of the muslim kings and to avoid conversion, Nagars migrated, in hundreds of bullock carts, to malva. This migration took place under the leadership of Shri Kuka Mehta and therefore the event is still remembered as ‘Kuka Prasthan’.
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