[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s12.237 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.237 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.237 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s12.237](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.237) (1) A copper-plate grant from the Karṇûl District, Madras Presidency,³ which records that, in the third year of his reign, on the full-moon day on which the festival of the saṃgama-mahâyâtrâ was held, Vikramâditya I. granted to a Brâhmaṇ some land at a village named Ratnagiri, in the Nalavâḍi viṣaya, which is probably the modern Ratnâgiri,⁴ about thirteen miles south-west of Maḍakaśirâ, the chief town of the Maḍakaśirâ tâluka of the Bellâry District. No reference is made to the Śaka or any other era. But, accepting the conclusion that the commencement of the reign may be placed in A. D. 655, the corresponding English date may be placed in A. D. 657. - [Previous: c8.s12.236](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.236) - [Next: c8.s12.238](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.238) - [Up: c8.s12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.237](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s12.237) · Pramāṇa