The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.68

c8.s18.68

Of the time of Aparājita,³ we have a copper-plate charter which appears to have been obtained at Bhaḍāna in the Bhiwṇḍi tāluka of the Thāṇa District.⁴ It gives him the titles of *Mahāsāmantādhipati* and *Mahāmaṇḍalēśvara*. And it furnishes for him a date in the month Āshāḍha (June-July), falling in A.D. 997, of the Hēmalamba *saṃvatsara*, *Śaka-Saṃvat* 939 (expired). It does not indicate the extent of the territory that he held. But, by recording that, when staying at Sthānaka, *i.e.* Thāṇa, he granted the village of Bhaḍāna itself to a Brāhman, it shews that at any rate the country in the neighbourhood of Thāṇa was in his possession.