The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.177

c8.s12.177

(1) A copper-plate grant from Gôa, dated on the full-moon day of the month Mâgha, Śaka-Saṁvat 532, corresponding, approximately, to the 15th January, A. D. 610, or to the 5th January, A. D. 611, according as the Śaka year is applied as current or as expired,⁵ which mentions him as “the Mahârâja who was the favourite of fortune and the earth,” and records how, with his permission, Satyâśraya-Dhruvarâja-Indravarman,⁶ the governor, stationed in Rêvatîdvîpa, of four vishayas and maṇḍalas, granted to a Brâhman a village named Kâreḷikâ in the Khêṭâhâra dēśa. The Khêṭâhâra dēśa is plainly now represented by the Khêd tâluka of the Ratnâgiri District; and Kârellikâ may possibly be Karêl, somewhere in the Râjâpur tâluka.¹ The record is further dated in the twentieth year of the government of Satyâśraya-Dhruvarâja-Indravarman; and this indicates about A. D. 590, in the reign of Kîrtivarman I., for the commencement of his administration.