The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.213

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(4) An inscription on the architrave over the verandah of the Kaṇheri Cave No. 78 in the island of Salsette, Ṭhâṇa District,⁴ which records that, in the reign of Amôghavarsha, and during the rule of the *Mahâsâmanta* Pullaśakti, of the northern Koṅkaṇ branch of the Śilâhâra family, who was governing the whole of the Koṅkaṇ, headed by the city of Purî, which he held through the favour of Amôghavarsha, Pullaśakti's old minister, Viṣṇu. . . , having done obeisance to the Buddhist community at the mount Kṛṣṇagiri, gave certain grants of coins called *drammas*, for the purpose of making repairs and providing clothes and books. The record is dated Śaka-Saṃvat 765, without any further details; and the corresponding Christian year is A. D. 843-44, if the Śaka year is taken as expired. As regards the places mentioned in this record,—Kṛṣṇagiri is, of course, Kaṇheri itself; and reference has already been made to Purî, in connection with the Mauryas of the Koṅkaṇ.⁵