The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.56.1

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And their capital was a town named Purî, which is doubtless identical first sight, rather conflicting, but may be fairly well reconciled by the fact that Ptolemy's map shews Paithan also in an easterly or north-easterly direction from Broach; the result being (taking Paithan as the nearest starting-point) that we should look for Tagara, according to both authorities, in approximately an easterly direction from Paithan, and, according to the *Periplus*, at a distance of about one hundred miles.—Still, no acceptable identification of Tagara, on any such bases, has been practicable. There seems to have grown up a general consensus of opinion that there is something radically wrong in the details, and that the latter may, accordingly, be neglected altogether. And proposals have been made, by other writers (see, generally, *Ind. Ant.* Vol. XIII. p. 366), to identify the town (1) with Dêvagiri or Daulatâbâd in the Nizâm's Dominions, about thirty-four miles north of Paithan; (2) with a supposed ancient place, the ruins of which, it is said, may be traced over a wide area on the plateau south of Rôzah, about four miles from Daulatâbâd; (3) with a place near 'Bhîr' or 'Bhîr,' in the same territory, about forty-five miles to the south-east of Paithan; (4) with 'Dharûr' or 'Dhârûr,' in the same territory, about twenty-five miles to the south-east of Bir or Bhîr; (5) with Kulbarga, Kulburagi, or Gulbarga, in the same territory;