The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.171

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(6) A copper-plate grant from Tôrkhêḍe in the Khândêsh District,⁵ which records that the *Mahâsâmanta* Buddhavarasa, of the Salukika family, a feudatory of Prabhûtavarsha-Gôvindarâja of Gujarât, granted to some Brâhmaṇs a village named Gôvaṭṭana in the Sîharakhî or Sîharakkhî twelve. The grant was made on the seventh *tithi*, called vijaya-saptami, of the bright fortnight of the month Pausha in the Nandana *saṃvatsara*, *Saka-Saṃvat* 735 (current); and the corresponding English date is the 14th December, A. D. 812.⁶ Sîharakhî is probably the modern Serkhi, somewhere close in the neighbourhood of Barôda.