The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.116

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Tîrawade,¹ eight miles south-west of Gârgôti, the chief town of the Bhûdhargad subdivision of the Kôlhâpur territory, which is itself about thirty miles south of Kôlhâpur. The record of A. D. 1135 mentions him as ruling at Valavâda, which may be either the modern Wâlwa in the Bhûdhargad subdivision, sixteen miles in a south-westerly direction from Kôlhâpur, as was suggested by Sir Walter Elliot,² or another place of the same name in the Wâlwa tâluka of the Sâtârâ District, twenty-five miles to the north-east of Kôlhâpur. The same record mentions also a subordinate of Gandarâditya, the Mahâsâmanta Nimbadêvarasa, who is described as the staff of his right arm. An inscription at Têrdâl, belonging to this period, mentions a Mandalika named Gońki or Gońkadêva, with a date in A.D. 1122,³ who, as the record describes him as sprung from the lineage of Jîmûtavâhana, seems to have been connected in some way with the Silâhâra family; but, as his family-deity was the goddess Padmâvatî, he must have belonged to a different branch of it from any of the well-known three branches.⁴