The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.282

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The earliest records that can be unquestionably allotted to members of this family, are of the time of Dadda II.⁴ Two of them are copper-plate charters which were obtained at Kaira, the chief town of the Kaira District, Bombay Presidency.⁵ One of them is dated on the full-moon day of the month Kārttika of the (Kalachuri or Chēdi) year 380 (expired), corresponding, approximately, to the 9th October, A. D. 629; and the other, on the same tithi in the year 385 (expired), corresponding, approximately, to the 14th October, A. D. 634.¹ And they both register the grant, to Brâhmans, of the village of Sirîshapadraka in the Akrûrêśvara vishaya.² Akrûrêśvara,—for which the form Akulêśvara occurs elsewhere,³—has been rightly identified by Dr. Bühler with the modern Anklêshwar, the chief town of the Anklêshwar tâluka in the Broach District;⁴ and Sirîshapadraka is the modern Sîsôdrâ, about ten miles south of Anklêshwar,—between the rivers Kîm and Narmadâ. These two charters were issued from a place named Nândîpurî, which Pandit Bhagawanlal Indraji would have identified with the modern Nândôd, the chief town of the Râjpiplâ State.⁵ Dr. Bühler, however, has told us that Nândôd must represent an ancient Nandapadra; and he has identified Nândîpurî with an ancient fort, of the same name, which stood outside the Jhadêśvara gate on the east of the town of Broach.⁶ Of the time of Dadda II., we also have a copper-plate charter from Sânkhêdâ, in the Barôda State,⁷ registering a grant made by Raṇagraha. The first plate, containing the details of the place of issue and of the village that was granted, is not forthcoming. The date is the new-moon day of the month Vaiśâkha of the (Kalachuri) year 391 (expired), corresponding, approximately, by the pûrṇimânta arrangement of the lunar fortnights, to the 18th April, A. D. 641.⁸