The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.32

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of the Kīlaka saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 930 (expired), when he granted some villages and lands for the worship and maintenance of a temple of the god Śiva under the name of Avvēśvara. The place-names mentioned in connection with the grant, have not yet been identified; but it seems likely that the territory held by this branch of the family lay appreciably to the south of Bombay; and very probably it consisted of the Koṅkaṇa nine-hundred, i. e. the present territory of Goa, and the Iridige country, including the Sāwantwāḍi State and the Ratnāgiri District.¹ The power of this branch of the family doubtless died out with Raṭṭarāja; for, Arikēsarin, of the northern branch, is represented as governing the whole Koṅkaṇ only nine years later, in A. D. 1017.