Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c11.5

c11.5

Paithan also must have been the capital of a kingdom about the time In the inscriptions in the caves at Pitalkhorâ near Chalisgaon, which from the forms of the characters in which they are engraved must be referred to the second century before Christ, the religious benefactions of merchants from Pratish-thâna are recorded, as well as those of the physician to the king and of his son and daughter² The king referred to must be the ruler of Pratishthâna or Paithan No more particular information is available On the history of the early centuries of the Christian era and the first century previous, however, the inscriptions in the cave-temples on the top of the Sahyâdri throw a good deal of light I will here bring together the information deducible from them, noticing the inscriptions in the chronological order clearly determined by the forms of the characters