The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.268

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(1) A copper-plate grant, of doubtful authenticity, from Bagumṛâ in the Barôda territory,⁴ which purports to record that the Mahâsâmantâdhipati Akâlavarsha-Kṛishṇarâja of Gujarât, when resident at Aṅkûlêśvara, bathed in the Narmadâ at the Bhagavat tîrtha, and granted to two Brâhmaṇs a village named Kavithasâdhi in the Variavi hundred-and-sixteen which was in the Koṅkaṇa vishaya. The grant was made on the occasion of an eclipse of the sun on the new-moon day of the month Chaitra, Śaka-Saṁvat 810 (expired); and the equivalent English date is the 15th April, A. D. 888, on which day there was a total annular eclipse of the sun, visible in India.⁵ Of the places mentioned, Aṅkûlêśvara is the modern Aṅkûlêśvar or Aṅklêśwar, the chief town of the tâluka of the same name in the Broach District; Variavi is the modern Variâo, on the Tapti, in the Barôda territory, three or four miles north of Surat; and Kavithasâdhi is the modern Kôśâl, close by, in the Ôlpâḍ tâluka of the Surat District.⁶