The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.34

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The Mauryas, as we have just seen, are first mentioned in connection with Kîrtivarman I.; and they, also, are spoken of again in the Kauthêm grant, and the other records of that class, as having been conquered by him. All the further information that we have about them, for the same early period, is a statement, in the Aihoḷe inscription, that they were overwhelmed, in the Koṅkaṇ,⁵ by the armies that were sent against them by Pulikêśin II. It is not improbable that their capital is named as "Puri, the goddess of fortune of the western ocean," in the verse immediately following that in which their subjugation is recorded, and that this town is the Purî which, in the ninth and following centuries A. D., was the capital of the feudatory princes of the northern Koṅkaṇ branch of the Śilâhâra family, and was the chief town of