The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.276

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(4) A copper-plate grant from Kâpaḍwaṇaj in the Kaira District.³ It takes the genealogy of the main line from Kṛishṇa I. as far as Kṛishṇa II. It then mentions a feudatory of his, the Mahâsâmanta Prachaṇḍa, son of Dhavalappa, of the Brahmavaka family; and a Daṇḍanâyaka, or leader of the forces, of Dhavalappa, named Chandragupta. And it proceeds to record that Kṛishṇa II. granted to a Brâhmaṇ a village named Vyâghrâsa, and also called Vallurikâ, in the Rûriddhâ ten, which was in the Karpaṭavâṇijya eighty-four, which, again, was in the Harshapura or Śriharshapura seven-hundred-and-fifty. The grant was made, or the record was written, on the full-moon day of the month Vaiśâkha, Śaka-Saṁvat 832; and the corresponding English date is, approximately, the 8th April, A. D. 909, or the 27th April, A. D. 910, according as the Śaka year is taken as current or as expired. Of the places mentioned above, Karpaṭavâṇijya is, of course, Kâpaḍwaṇaj itself; and Vyâghrâsa has been identified by Dr. Hultzsch, in editing the record, with the modern Waghâs, on the east of Kâpaḍwaṇaj. The record also mentions Khêṭaka or Śrikhêṭaka, Harshapura and Kâśahrada, as leading towns of the seven-hundred-and-fifty district that is referred to; and the first of these seems undoubtedly, as was held by Dr. Hultzsch, to be the modern Kaira.