The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.255

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¹ There are also two spurious records which assume to belong to the time of Vikramâditya I.—One is a copper-plate grant from Kuṛtakôṭi in the Dhârwâr District (Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 217), which purports to record that Vikramâditya I. granted to some Brâhmaṇs the village of Kuṛtakôṭe, i.e. Beḷvoḷa viṣaya. The grant purports to have been made at the city of Kisuvoḷal, in the sixteenth year of his reign, at the time of a total eclipse of the sun, on Sunday, the new-moon day between the months Vaiśâkha and Jyêṣṭha, Śaka-Saṃvat 532 expired. The real period of Vikramâditya I. is so well established, that no criticism of this record is called for. It is sufficient to remark, that the characters shew that it was fabricated in the ninth or tenth century A. D., and that even the date was not correctly computed; for, the corresponding English date (see Ind. Ant. Vol. XVII. p. 235) would be, not a Sunday, but Tuesday, 20th April, A. D. 610, and on this day there was no solar eclipse at all. The record, however, mentions, in addition to the usual genealogy, some historical facts which seem to be quite genuine (see page 327 above, note 4). And it may perhaps be taken to prove that the duration of the reign of Vikramâditya I. was certainly not less than sixteen years.—The other is another grant from the Karṇûl District (Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XVI..pp. 229, 240), which purports to record that Vikramâditya I. granted to a Brâhmaṇ some land at villages named Aguṇṭe and Tebuṃḷaḍra. This record is not dated, either in a regnal year, or with reference to any era. It may perhaps have been concocted not long after the period to which it refers itself.