The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.318

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it from the Silâhâras, a division of the Konkan which was called the Konkana nine-hundred, and was evidently the territory in the vicinity of Goa. And Goa itself, which is mentioned in their records by the names of Gôpakapattana, Gôpakapurî, and Gôve, then became their capital. Like the Kâdambas of Hângal, they had the hereditary title of Banavâsi-puravar-adhîsvara, or "supreme lord of Banavâsi, the best of towns;" they used the simha-lanchhana or lion crest, which appears on the seals of the two copper-plate grants of their family that have come to notice, and on the gold coins of Permâdi and Jayakêsin III. they carried the vanara-makadhvaja, or "great banner of a monkey," and they were heralded in public by the sounds of the musical instrument called permatti. But their family-god was different, being Siva, under the name of Saptakôtîsvara. A copper-plate charter of one of the members of this family has been obtained at Goa. But their records are mostly found in the Khânâpur and Sampgaon tâlukas of the Belgaum District, and in the northern and northwestern parts of Dhârwâr. A peculiarity about some of the records is the exceptional way in which the dates are given in years of the Kaliyuga era, instead of the Saka era.