The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.226

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a Brâhmaṇ a village named Pârâhaṇaka, which was included in the one hundred and sixteen villages that were connected with the town of Karmântapura. The grant was made on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun on the new-moon day of the month Jyaishṭha, Śaka-Saṃvat 789; and the corresponding English date is the 16th June, A. D. 866, or the 6th June, A. D. 867, according as the Śaka year is taken as current or as expired: on each of these days there was a total eclipse of the sun, visible in India.¹ The village of Pârâhaṇaka is the modern ‘Parona’ in the Surat District.²