[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882) › c8.s18.42 # The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.42 The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.42 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s18.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.42) ⁸ Lat. 16° 42', long. 73° 16'; Indian Atlas, sheet No. 40,—'Kolapoor.'—Tagara was a town of considerable antiquity, and of importance enough to be mentioned in the second century A.D. by Ptolemy, in whose map of India (Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII. p. 329; see also p. 366) it is located in a part of the country he called Ariakē, and is placed in a north-easterly direction from Barygaza, i. e. Broach, the chief town of the Broach District in Gujarāt, Bombay Presidency (lat. 21° 43', long. 73° 2'), and in the third century by the author of the Periplus Maris Erythraei (Ind. Ant. Vol. VIII. p. 144; see also Vol. XIII. p. 366), who, describing it as an inland mart for articles of local production brought into it from the parts along the coast and then transported on waggons to Barygaza through difficult regions that had no roads worth calling such, says that it was a ten days journey to the east from Baithana or Paithana, i. e. Paithan, on the Gōdāvarī, in the Nizām's Dominions (lat. 19° 29'; long. 75° 28'), which place was, according to the same authority, a twenty days journey to the south of Barygaza, and is in reality about two hundred miles in as near as possible a south-westerly direction from Broach. And it is also mentioned, as the residence of the grantee, in the copper-plate charter issued by the Western Chalukya king Pulikē-in II. in A. D. 612 (Ind. Ant. Vol. VI. p. 75; as regards a mistaken supposition that it is also mentioned, as 'Tagiri,' in records of A. D. 1077 at Balagānive in Mysore, see id. Vol. IX. p. 50).—The directions given by Ptolemy and the author of the Periplus seem, at - [Previous: c8.s18.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.41) - [Next: c8.s18.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.43) - [Up: c8.s18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.fleet-1882.c8.s18.42) · Pramāṇa