Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c8.13
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c8.13
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Dhruva was a mighty monarch whose conquests spread from South India as far north as Allahâbâd. During Dhruva's life-time his son Govinda probably ruled at Mayūrakhaṇḍī or Markhaṇḍa in the Nâsik district and held the Ghât country and the Gujarat coast from Balsâr northwards. Though according to a Kapadvanj grant Govinda had several brothers the Râdhanpur (A.D. 808) and Van-Dindori (A.D. 808) grants of his son Govinda III. state that his father, seeing Govinda's supernatural Krishna-like powers, offered him the sovereignty of the whole world. Govinda declined, saying, "The Kanthika or coast tract already given to me is enough." Seeing that Mayūrakhaṇḍī or Markhaṇḍa in Nâsik was Govinda's capital, this Kanthika appears to be the coast from Balsâr northwards.