The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.301

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Through the places, mentioned in them, which have thus been identified, these records cover the country from the north bank of the river Kim to the south bank of the Mahî, and so shew the extent of the Gurjara territory in the neighbourhood of the coast; inland, it doubtless extended to the Western Ghauts. On the south of it, separated by the Kim, there lay the Lâṭa province of the kingdom of the Western Chalukyas of Bâdâmi. And on the north, across the Mahî, there was the Khêṭakâhâra province, — the modern Kaira District, with the Cambay State and some outlying parts of the Gaikwâr's territory, — which, as grants of A. D. 590 and 766,⁴ and intervening records shew, belonged to the rulers of Valabhî. On the east of the Mahî, the Gurjara boundary may have followed the course of that river as far north as Lûṇâwâḍâ; or there may have been, on the north of the Gurjara country in that direction, another Valabhî province of which the capital was Gôdhrâ, the headquarters station of the present Pañch-Mahâls District, — in which case, the boundary line probably ran through the southern point of the Pañch-Mahâls straight to the Mahî on the west and to Chhôṭâ-Udêpur on the east: at any rate, Śilâditya VI. of Valabhî was in possession of Gôdrahaka, *i. e.* Godhrâ, in A. D. 760; and, though he may have only acquired that territory when the Gurjara power came to an end, still it is equally possible that his predecessors had possessed it.