The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.117

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² Lat. 15° 45', long. 73° 44'; Indian Atlas, sheet No. 41, — ‘Reree Fort.’ — This identification was made by Dr. Bhandarkar (*Early History of the Dekkan*, 1884, pp. 37, 38). He, however, took *dvīpa* in the sense of ‘island,’ with the result that the promontory of Rēḍī was the island of Rēvatī. But it seems quite plain that *dvīpa* is used here in the broader sense in which it occurs also in Kāpardikadvīpa or Kavadi-dvīpa, another territorial division to the north of Rēvatīdvīpa. — The Kauthēm grant of A. D. 1009, also, has turned Rēvatī into an island; it says that Maṅgalēśa conquered it by crossing the sea with bridges of boats (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. XVI. p. 17). — Elsewhere, the suggestions have been made (id. Vol. XIX. p. 80) that Rēvatīdvīpa might be Sumatra, or an island off the Malabar Coast. And Sir Walter Elliot was evidently inclined to identify it with the island of Ramri, off the coast of Arakan. But the sole basis for the latter idea, is the wrong attribution, to Maṅgalēśa, of certain coins which are really to be referred to the Eastern Chālukya king Chālukyachandra-Saktivarman. — I have already suggested (page 282 above, note 5) that the territory of Rēvatīdvīpa may be indentified with the Koṅkaṇa nine-hundred, one of the provinces of the Kādambas of Goa. If so, and if we have another trace of the territorial name in Rēvaḍi or Rēvaṇḍi, a small village just on the north of Mālvaṇ, Rēvatīdvīpa, or the Koṅkaṇa nine-hundred, must have included, in addition to the present territory of Goa, the narrow strip of land between the Sāwantwāḍī State and the sea, which embraces the Veṅgurla tāluka and the southern part of the Mālvaṇ tāluka, up to the Kālāwalī river; and the Iridige *vishaya*, which was the next territorial division to the north and included the Sāwantwāḍī State, must have spread out to the sea only from the north bank of the Kālāwalī. — The spurious charter from Kāndalgaon in the Ratnāgiri District (see page 358 below, note 1) purports to convey the grant of a village named Pirigipa, in Rēvatīdvīpa, situated on the north bank of the river Mahānadī, and on the east, south, and west of villages named Vindiri, Khuddikā, and Chhurāvaṇa. The last name is very suggestive of the modern ‘Choṛaṇe,’ in the Saṅgamēshwar tāluka, on the north of a river which runs into the sea at Ratnāgiri. But,