The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.262

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The earliest trace of the Mâlavas is probably to be found in certain coins, obtained in large numbers at Nâgar in the north of Mâlwa, about forty-five miles north of Koṭâ, which have on them the legend Mâlavânaṁ jayaḥ, "the victory of the Mâlavas:"² according to General Sir Alexander Cunningham, the characters range "from perhaps B. C. 250 to A. D. 250;" but we must now place these coins in some period not earlier than B. C. 58, the commencement of the Mâlava era. In epigraphic records, the Mâlavas are first mentioned, in the Allâhâbâd pillar inscription, among the tribes which were conquered by the Early Gupta king Samudragupta, about the middle of the fourth century A. D.³ And possibly the Varika prince Vishṇuvardhana, — son of