The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c7.s5.69

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In a copperplate of A.D. 1094, recording a grant by the fourteenth king Anantdev, Aparájit is mentioned as having welcomed Goinma, confirmed to Aiyapdev the sovereignty which had been shaken, and afforded security to Bhillamámmamanambudha?³ The next king was Aparájit’s son Vajjadadev. The next king Arikeshari, Vajjadadev’s brother, in a copperplate grant dated A.D. 1097, is styled the lord of fourteen hundred Konkan villages. Mention is also made of the cities of Shristhának, Puri, and Hamyaman probably Sanján.⁴ The eleventh king was Vajjadadev’s son Chhittarájdev. In a copperplate dated *Shak* 948 (A.D. 1025) he is styled the ruler of the fourteen hundred Konkan villages, the chief of which were Puri and Hamyaman.⁵ The twelfth king was Nágárjun, the younger brother of Chhittarájdev. After him came Nágárjun’s younger brother Mummuni or Mámváni, who is mentioned in an inscription dated A.D. 1060 (*Shak* 932).⁶ The fourteenth king was Mummuni or Mámváni’s son Anantpál or Anantdev, whose name occurs in two grants dated A.D. 1081 and 1096.⁷ In the 1096 grant Anantpál is mentioned as ruling over the whole Konkan fourteen hundred villages, the chief of which was Puri and next to it Hanjamana probably Sanján, and as having cast into the ocean of the edge of his sword those wicked heaps of sin, who at a time of misfortune, caused by the rise to power of hostile relatives, devastated the whole Konkan, harassing gods and Bráhmans.¹