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⁴ Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II. p. 221.—Valabhî is a very well known place, being the capital of a dynasty of kings who succeeded the Early Guptas in Kâṭhiâwâḍ.—There is a reference to Valabhî, as a tîrtha, in an inscription of approximately the ninth century A. D., at Aralêshwar in the Hângal tâluka, Dhârwâr District; the words are—“he who destroys this, becomes (like) one who commits the five great sins by destroying Baḷabhi (i.e. Valabhî), Vârâṇasi, and Śrîparvata.”—Another reference to it, in a southern record, is contained in the Âtakûr inscription of A. D. 949-50, which mentions a feudatory of the Western Gaṅga prince Permânaḍi-Bûtuga, named Maṇalarata, of the lineage of Sagara, to whom it gives the hereditary title of “lord of Valabhî, the best of towns” (Epigraphia Indica, Vol. II. p. 173). And the same title occurs again in a fragmentary inscription at Muttatti in the Tirumakuḍlu-Narasipur tâluka in Mysore (Inscriptions in the Mysore District, Part I. No. TN. 12).