The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.43

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² It is rather surprising that the name of Kuntala does not occur in the records of the Western Chalukyas of Bâdâmi; for, it is carried back to the sixth century A. D. by the Brihat-Saṃhitâ of Varâhamihira (see Ind. Ant. Vol. XXII. p. 182), and it is also mentioned, as a principal territorial division, in an inscription at Ajaṇṭâ, of not much later date, which, in fact, seems to indicate that Ajaṇṭâ itself was in Kuntala (Archaeol. Surv. West. Ind. Vo'. IV. pp. 126, 127); and further, it is, in my opinion, the real country, in Mahârâshṭra, which Hiuen Tsiang, representing Nâsik as its capital, described under the name of Mahârâshṭra, the kingdom of Puḷikêśin II. (see page 355 above, note 3; and Ind. Ant. Vol. XXII. p. 115).