The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.59

c8.s18.59

Of the time of the Mahâsâmanta Pullaśakti, we have a record in the Kaṇheri caves, in the island of Sâlsette, Ṭhâna District,² which styles him "lord of the Koṅkaṇ," and shews that in *Śaka-Saṃvat* 765, corresponding to A.D. 842-43 or 843-44 according as the *Śaka* year is taken as current or as expired, as a feudatory of the Râshṭrakûṭa king Amoghavarsha, he was ruling the whole of the Koṅkaṇ, headed by the city of Purî,— holding it through the favour of Amoghavarsha. He is described as a successor of Kapardin I.; which implies that it was the latter who actually acquired the feudatory government for his family. And the record states that his old minister Vishṇu . . . , having done obeisance to the Buddhist community at the mount of Krishṇagiri, *i.e.* Kaṇheri, gave certain grants for the purpose of making repairs and providing clothes and books.