The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.143

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power would seem to have been somewhere in the direction of the Nâsik District, and very probably at Nâsik itself; for, both the charters of A. D. 807, which record the above occurrences, were issued from Mayûrakhandi, which is the modern Mârkinda, a hill-fort in the range of hills on the south of the Kalvan tâluka, Nâsik District.¹ But it appears that Gôvinda III. transferred, or took measures with a view to transferring, the seat of government. For, one of the same records tells us that he sent a brief peremptory order to the lord of Vengî, and made him come and construct the outer wall round a city, which was apparently in course of construction or fortification as a capital. This seems to have been done just before the setting in of the rainy season of A. D. 807; for, while it is mentioned in the Râdhanpur charter that was issued in August of that year, it is not referred to in the Wani charter of the preceding April. If, so, the lord of Vengî must be the Eastern Chalukya king Narêndramrigarâja-Vijayâditya II., who was on the throne of Vengî from A. D. 799 to 843, and is described, in the records of his family, as having fought, during twelve years, by day and by night, a hundred and eight battles with the armies of the Gangas and the Râshtrakûtas.² And there seems little doubt that the city, thus referred to, is the Mânyakhêta of subsequent records, and the modern Mâlkhêd in the Nizâm's Dominions, about ninety miles in a south-easterly direction from Shôlâpur, the importance of which place, with a view to resisting attacks from the east, will be apparent at once if a map is consulted.³ The record of A. D. 811-12 tells us that Gôvinda III. took from his enemies the emblems of the rivers Gangâ and Yamunâ, charming with their waves; and acquired, at the same time, that supreme position of lordship (which was indicated) by the form of a visible sign of those two rivers;⁴ this was doubtless done in his wars with the Eastern Chalukya Vijayâditya II. And a later record, of A. D. 866, claims that he conquered the Kêralas, the Mâlavas, the Sautas, the Gurjaras, and those who dwelt at the hill-fort of Chitrakûta, i. e., this place being apparently Chitrakôt or Chatarkôt in Bundêlkhand, the Kalachuris of Central India. His dominions thus extended from the western coast far across towards the east, and from the neighbourhood of the Vindhya mountains and Mâlava in the north to at least the Tungabhadrâ in the south; and his power and influence were spread over even a greater area. It was, doubtless, in consequence