The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.36.3

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and that Haive was, it were, the bracelet (kaṅkaṇa) of the lady, the Koṅkaṇ, which was thus considered to be "the creation of Paraśurâma" (P. S. and O.-C. Inscrs. No. 172, lines 15, 17; Mysore Inscriptions, p. 83). Next to the Haive country, we may place the Koṅkaṇ, nine-hundred, which was a portion of the possessions of the Kâdamba princes of Goa (chapter VIII. below), and seems to have corresponded pretty closely with the present territory of Goa; this may, perhaps, be identified with the Rêvatîdvîpa of the Aihoḷe inscription of A.D. 634-35 (Ind. Ant. Vol. VIII. p. 243). Next to the north must have come the Iridige country, mentioned in records of A.D. 700 and 705-706 (Ind. Ant. Vol. IX. pp. 129, 132), which is plainly marked as one of the Seven Koṅkaṇs; by being called a mahâsaptama or ‘great seventh;’ this must have included the Sâwantwâḍi State and the Ratnâgiri District. Next there must be placed the Koṅkaṇ fourteen-hundred of the northern Śilâhâra princes of the Koṅkaṇ (chapter VIII. below), which began somewhere about Chaul or Cheinwal, in the Kolâba District, thirty miles south of Bombay, and appears to have extended over the whole of Kolâba, and Thâṇa; this was also known as the Kâpardidvîpa or Kavadidvîpa lâkh-and-a-quarter country (chapter VIII. below). And on the north of this there was the Lâṭa country, (see page 310 below) probably coincided exactly with the modern Surat District, including such portions of the Baroda territory as are mixed up in it.