The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.67

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From about the middle of the ninth century A. D., we have a variety of interesting contemporaneous references to the kings of this dynasty, under the name of Balharâs, and to their capital, under the name of Mânkîr, in the writings of the early Arab travellers and geographers,—the merchant Sulaimân (A. D. 851), Abû Zaid (shortly before A. D. 916), Ibn-Khurdâdba (died A. D. 912), Al Mas'ûdî (wrote A. D. 932-933, and died A. D. 956), Al Istakhrî (wrote