The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.151

c8.s13.151

(1) A copper-plate grant from the well-known Paithan, in the Nizâm's Dominions,² which records that, on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun on the new-moon *tithi* of the month Vaiśâkha, *Śaka-Saṃvat* 716 (expired), when his victorious camp was located outside Pratiṣṭhâna, he granted, to some Brâhmaṇs, a village named Limbâ-râmikâ, in the circle of villages known as the Sârâkachchha twelve which was in the Pratiṣṭhâna-*bhukti*, *i. e.* in a territorial division that took its name from Pratiṣṭhâna, which is Paithan itself. The corresponding English date is the 4th May, A. D. 794, on which day there was a total eclipse of the sun, visible right across India.³