Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part I: History of Gujarat c8.41

c8.41

The grant which is made from Anklesvar near Broach records the gift to two Brāhmans of the village of Kavithasthal the modern Kosād four miles north-east of Surat, described as situated in the Variāvi (the modern Variāv two miles north of Surat) sub-division of 116 villages in the province of Konkan. The grant is said to have been written by the peace and war minister the illustrious Jejaka son of Kalaka, the Dūtaka being the head officer (mahāsāndhivigrahika) the Brāhman Ollaiyaka.¹ This grant seems to imply the recovery by the local dynasty of some portion of the disputed area to the south of the Tāpti. This recovery must have been a passing success. After Śaka 810 (A.D. 888) nothing is known of the Gujarat Rāshṭrakūṭas. And the re-establishment of the power of the Rāshṭrakūṭas of Mānyakheṭa of the main line in south Gujarat in Śaka 836 (A.D. 914) is proved by two copperplates found in Navsāri which record the grant of villages near Navsāri, in what the text calls the Lāṭa country, by king Indra Nityavarsha son of Jagattunga and grandson of Kṛishṇa Akālavarsha.²