The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.353

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(1) A copper-plate grant from Dêôḷi in the Wardhâ District, Central Provinces,⁴ which records that, to increase the religious merit of his most beloved brother Jagattuṅga III., he granted to a Kanarese Brâhman a village named Tâlapurumshaka in the Nâgapura-Nandivardhana district. The grant was made at the capital of Mânyakhêṭa, on the fifth tithi of the dark fortnight of the month Vaisâkha of the Sârvarin samvatsara, Saka-Samvat 862 (expired); and the corresponding English date is, approximately, the 30th April, A. D. 940.⁵ Among the boundaries of the village that was granted, there are mentioned—on the south, the river Kanhanâ, Kanhan, or Kandavâ; on the west, the village of Môhamagrâma; and on the north, the village of Vadhrîrâ: and these have been identified by Dr. Bhandarkar with the river Kanhana which has a course from the north-west of Nâgpur to the south-east,—the modern Môhgaon in the Chhindwâra District, about fifty-miles to the north-west of Nâgpur,—and the modern Berdi, in the vicinity of Môhgaon.