Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c8.20
Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarát c8.20
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Karka's Surat grant (S. 743, A.D. 821) is made from the royal camp on the bank of the Vanki apparently the Vanki creek near Balsar. It records the grant of a field in Anna petaka village near Nagasarika (Navsari) to a Jain temple at Nagasarika (Navsari). The writer of the grant is the minister of war and peace Nannaiya son of Durgabhata. As it is the first grant by a Gujarat Rashtrakuta of lands south of the Tapti it may be inferred that in return for his support, Amoghavarsha by adding to Karka's territory the portion of the North Konkan which now forms Gujarat south of the Tapti.