Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c19.s3.t1: Thána
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c19.s3.t1
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Thána
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sending a successful expedition against Thána. Al Masúdi (A.D. 943) refers to Thána on the shore of the Lárwi sea or Indian Ocean, as one of the coast towns in which the Lárwi language is spoken.¹ Al Birúni (A.D. 970-1031) gives² the distance from Mahrat Desh (the Maratha country) to the Konkan "with its capital Tána on the sea-shore" as 100 miles (25 farsakhs) and locates the Lár Desh (south Gujarat) capitals of Báhrúj and Bahanjur (Broach and Ránder) to the east of Thána. He places Thána with Somnáth Konkan and Kambáya in Gujarat and notices that from Thána the Lár country begins. Al Idrisi (end of the eleventh century) describes Thána as a pretty town upon a great gulf where vessels anchor and from where they set sail. He gives the distance from Sindábur (or Goa) to Thána as four days' sail. From the neighbourhood of Thána he says the kana or bamboo and the tabáshir or bamboo pith are transported to the east and west.³
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¹ Barbier DeMeynard's Text of Masúdi's Prairies D'Or, I. 330 and 381.
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² Sachau's Arabic Text of Al Birúni, chapters 18, 99, 102 and Elliot's History of India, I. 60-61, 66-67.
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³ Al Idrisi in Elliot, I. 89.