Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhan c9.s1.1

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SINNAR, twenty miles south of Nāsik, is an ancient town, and has been mentioned in old records under the names Sindinagara, Seuṇapura and Sindīnera. In A.D. 1025 the Mahāsāmanta Bhillama III of the Yādava family was ruling his hereditary province of Seuṇadesa, at his capital of Sindīnagara, as a feudatory of the Western Chālukya king Jayasiṃha II. Later, according to the Vrata-khaṇḍa and the Bassein grant of A.D. 1069, it is recorded that Seuṇachandra I founded the town of Seuṇapura. It would appear that his son Dhadiyappa was born in the town of Sindīnera. This is about all that we know of it. According to tradition Sinnar was founded by a Gavali (Yādava) chief Rāv Shinguni about seven hundred years ago. His son Rāv Govinda is supposed to have built the great temple of Goṇdeśvara, at a cost of two lakhs of rupees. It is possible it may be named after Govindarāja, one of the Yādava Princes, who ruled about the beginning of the 12th century. (Plates XLII—LII and LV.)