The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.88

c8.s13.88

Of the time of Dantidurga, we have only one record,—a copper-plate grant, obtained at Sâmângad in the Kolhâpur State,¹ which records that he made a grant to a Brâhman on the seventh tithi, called ratha-saptamî, in the month Mâgha, Saka-Samvat 675 expired.² The record is connected, in a general way, with the part of the country in which it was obtained, by the fact that the grantee was a resident of Karaḥâṭaka, which is the modern Karâḍ or Karhâḍ, the chief town of the tâluka of the same name in the Sâtârâ District. But a more specific indication is afforded by the fact that, in the description of the boundaries of the village or villages which formed the subject of the grant, mention is made of a village named Aitavaḍe as defining the northern limit. This seems plainly to be Aitavaḍe-Khurd,³ seven miles south of Pêṭh, the chief town of the Wâlwa tâluka, Sâtârâ District. Accepting this identification, we may take the long word, read as Karaṇḍivadêjaphitaḍêulavaḍâ, which contains the name of the subject of the grant, as giving a combination of the names of two villages, Karañjavaḍê and Dêvaḍê, which are just to the south of Aitavaḍê-Khurd. And it may further be added, that the record places a village named Pâragâon on the south of the subject of the grant, and the map shews a Pârgaon just to the south by west of Karañjavaḍê and Dêvaḍê; it is separated from them by the river Wârṇâ; but the river may possibly have run somewhat differently in ancient times; and this may account for it not being mentioned among the boundaries.