Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c15.18

c15.18

Communication between the several provinces does not appear to have been very difficult Benefactions of persons residing in Vaijayantî or Banavâsî, and Śorparaka or Supârâ, are recorded in the cave at Kârlı, of a Nâsik merchant at Beḍsâ, of some inhabitants of Bharukachchha and Kalyâṇ at Junnar, of natives of Northern India and Dâttâmitrî, which I have elsewhere shown was situated in Lower Sindh, at Nâsik, and of an iron-monger of Karahâkaḍa or Karhâḍ at Kuḍem On the other hand, gifts of natives of Nâsik and Karhâḍ are recorded on the *stûpa* at Bharhut which lies midway between Jabalpur and Allahâbâd ¹¹ Unless there were frequent communications between these places, it is not possible that the natives of one should make religious endowments at another