The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s18.80

c8.s18.80

Of the *Mahâsâmantâdhipati* and *Mahâmaṇḍalêśvarddhipati*² Anantadêva, also called Anantapâla, we have a copper-plate charter from Khârêpâṭaṇ in the Ratnâgiri District,³ which furnishes for him a date in the month Mâgha (Jan.-Feb.), falling in A.D. 1095, of the Bhâva saṁvatsara, Śaka-Saṁvat 1016 (expired). The record describes his territory in the same terms as those which are used in the case of Arikêsarin and Chhittarâja; and it further styles him *paśchima-samudr-âdhipati* or “supreme lord of the western ocean.” The command contained in it is addressed to, amongst others, the people of the town of Hañjamana. And the object of it was to release certain tolls on carts coming into Sthânaka, Nâgapura (very possibly the modern Nâgaon, about six miles south-east of Alîbâg),⁴ Surpâraka (Sôpârâ near Bassein), Chhêmûli (Chaul in the Kolâba District), and other sea-ports in the Koṅkaṇ fourteen-hundred. The record describes Anantadêva as “casting into the ocean of the edge of his sword those fierce heaps of sin who, at a time of misfortune due to the hostility of relatives, obtained power and devastated the land of the Koṅkaṇ, harassing gods and Brâhmans.” The meaning seems to be, that some differences arose between the members of this branch of the family and their relations of the Karâḍ branch, whereby the power of the former was weakened,—that the Kâḍambas of Goa took advantage of this, and seized part of the Koṅkaṇ, under the leadership of Jayakêśin I., who, according to the records of his own family, slew a king, probably Mâmvâui, of Kâpardikadvîpa, which is evidently the northern division of the Koṅkaṇ so called after Kapardin I. or II., and made Gôpakapaṭṭana, *i.e.* Goa, his capital,—