Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c8.35

c8.35

Dhruva II. Bagumra (A.D. 867) grant was made at Bhrigukachchha or Broach after bathing in the Narmada. It records the gifts to a Brahman of the village of Plehaka, probably the village of Palsana twelve miles south east of Bagumra in the late Navsari division of the Gaikwar's territory of Surat and Navsari. Dhruva's Baroda grant (A.D. 871) was also made at Broach. It is a grant to the Kapilesvara Mahadeva of the village of Kapilesvara, likely being the one mentioned as close to the south bank of the Mahi. The facts that the Bagumra grant (A.D. 867) transfers a village so far south as Balesar near Navsari and that four years later the Baroda grant (A.D. 871) mentions that Dhruva's territory lay between Broach and the Mahi seem to prove that between A.D. 867 and 871 the portion of Dhruva's kingdom south of Broach passed back into the hands of the main Rashtrakutas.