The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.308

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(2) A copper-plate grant from Nerûr, in the Sâwantwâḍi State,⁶ which records that, on the full-moon day of the month Âshâḍha, Śaka-Saṁvat 622 expired, in the fourth year of his reign, when his victorious camp was at the city of Râsênaṇagara, at the request of a certain Naṇḍereya, he granted to a Brâhmaṇ the village of Nerûr, situated between the villages of Ballâvalli and Sahamyapura, on the bank of the river Vihige, in the Iridige vishaya. In this year, the month Âshâdha was intercalary; and the approximate results for the date are, for the first Âshâdha, the 6th January, A.D. 700, and for the second Âshâdha, the 6th July. Râsena is possibly identical with the Râsiyana of a Râshtrakûta grant issued in A.D. 807; and, if so, it may be identified with the modern Râsin or Râsin in the Karjat tâluka, Ahmednagar District. Nerûr is evidently the village itself, where the record was obtained; for, about three miles on the west of it, there still exists a village named Wallâwal, i.e. Ballâvalli. The river Vihige is now known by the name of Sarambal. The Iridige vishaya was, apparently, the territory, in the Konkan, which now forms the Sâwantwâdi State and the Ratnâgiri District.¹