The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.29

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territory that was bounded by the shore of the ocean and the Sahya or Sahyâdri mountains, *i. e.* the Western Ghauts: counting back nine generations, at the rate of twenty-five years each, from the date of the record, we obtain A.D. 783 as the approximate date for Saṇaphulla; and, accordingly, the Krishna in question must be the Râshṭrakûṭa king Krishna I., in the period between A.D. 754 and 782. Regarding Dhammiyara, it says that he founded a great stronghold named Valipaṭṭana, which another record¹ locates on the sea-coast. Of Aiyaparāja, it says that he was endowed with the qualities of a conqueror, and was bathed with the water of cocoanuts near a town named Chandrapura,—meaning, perhaps, that he gained a victory at that place. Avasara II., it says, conquered his enemies, and aided the rulers born at Chêmûlya and Chandrapura; the former of these places is the modern Chaul or Chemwal in the Kolâba District, thirty miles south of Bombay. And, in respect of Bhīma, it tells us that he distinguished himself by seizing the Chandra *maṇḍala*.