The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s5.65

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ceremony in Maháráshtra, the place where the ceremony is performed is alluded to by giving its bearing from the Godávari. People in Khándesh use the words ‘Godávárya uttara tire’ that is ‘on the northern bank of the Godávari,’ while those to the south of the river, as far as the borders of the country, use the expression ‘Godávárya dakshine tire’ that is ‘on the southern bank of the Godávari.’ If then Tagar was one of the earliest of the Aryan settlements, it must be situated on or near the banks of the Godávari, as the ancient town of Paithan is; and its bearing from Paithan given by the Greek geographers agrees with this supposition, as the course of the Godávari from that point is nearly easterly. Tagar must therefore be looked for to the east of Paithan. If the name has undergone corruption, it must, by the Prákrit law of dropping the initial mutes, be first changed to Taaraura, and thence to Tarur or Terur. Can it be the modern Dárur or Dhárur in the Nizám’s dominions, twenty-five miles east of Grant Duff’s Bhir and seventy miles south-east of Paithan?